unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

[Cory Smelosky]

On 2 Jan 2013, at 17:53, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 01/02/2013 05:25 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
(BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome,
specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an
unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!).

Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;)

You could probably do it with "expect".   I did some work in that area
several years ago.   I remember I got pretty far with it.   I should try
to dig it up.

It certainly sounds interesting.

However Dave for you to find it will require a shovel as it was deeply buried.

You have no idea.   Never having run Windows, thus without the periodic
"wiping clean" of life that tends to happen when the OS shits the bed, I
have stuff in my primary home directory that dates back to the 1980s.

Nice!   Anything interesting dating back to then? ;)


It is a BIG filesystem.

I'm assuming it's expanded from its original size in the 1980s? ;)


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