[HECnet] PyDECnet File Transfer Support?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-22 22:11, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
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>> Are there any thoughts about adding file transfer capabilities to PyDECnet at some point in the future? If a pyDECnet node could implement a FAL server to share a directory and/or offer a way to copy files to/from other nodes over DECnet, that would be really cool. I think it could make a very nice option for moving files between DECnet nodes and modern systems without needing to wrestle with Linux DECnet drivers or install TCP/IP on the DECnet nodes. I don't know how hard it would be to implement, or if there's any way I could contribute.
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>> I'm imagining a silly future in which there is a native Python implementation of an entire RSX-11 or VMS system. :)
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> I suppose one could do a SIMH in Python, but I hate to imagine the size, or slowness, of such a beast.  I did once do a CPU emulation in Python, for a fairly simple CPU and only the CPU, that wasn't too hard.

I thought about a simple CPU emulation, but I suspected that was not 
what Mark was thinking of (and indeed wasn't). And since simh (as well 
as e11, and others) already exists, why would anyone do one in Python at 
this point?

   Johnny

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