[HECnet] Hoping to join HECnet

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-06-23 19:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/23/2018 01:32 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> But yes, there is no point in simulating a star coupler, since it's just
>> a passive device anyhow. And HSC emulation only needs to talk the CI
>> protocol and act as (T)MSCP server side. No point, or need, to emulate
>> an actual HSC and run CRONIC on it.
> 
>    About as much point as running VMS under emulation.  I have real HSCs
> here connecting real hardware, but I'd surely run an emulated HSC
> connecting emulated hardware if it were available.  I'd even be quite
> excited about it.

I don't think you emulate signals on cables, nor the CPUs on the 
controllers, which are running the microcode that implements MSCP on the 
UDA50. So it certainly makes some sense to emulate the whole HSC as just 
an endpoint for a protocol instead of running a PDP-11 plus the 
interfaces and buses that actually make up an HSC.

But it all depends on what you want to do, of course. Me personally, I 
like running real hardware as well. :-)

   Johnny

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