22 Dec
2021
22 Dec
'21
10:11 p.m.
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.
paul