22 Dec
2021
22 Dec
'21
10:17 p.m.
On 2021-12-22 22:11, Paul Koning wrote:
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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On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Mark J. Blair
<nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
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.
I'm imagining a silly future in which there is a native Python implementation of an
entire RSX-11 or VMS system. :)
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.