Richard,
We were initially given two requirements, and a goal:
1) The design will require using TECO to massage data.
2) The design will require providing file service to (at least) one other host,
so some form of bi-directional communication must be available.
GOAL: The goal is "to do a crazy experiment", that may depend on said
experiment being run on a real or simulated PDP-11.
In other posts, we have established a number of different ways of
satisfying the two stated requirements without a PDP-11 also being
absolutely necessary.
What remains elusive, to at least some of us, is an unnamed third
requirement that would make a pdp-11 necessary for the experiment to run
as desired. Can you elaborate on this? (without revealing anything
proprietary, of course)
What aspect of the experiment requires a pdp-11 architecture? (an
example of this aspect might be needing to assemble MACRO-11 files
generated by massaging data with TECO).
- michael
On 07/04/2012 10:34 PM, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject:
Re: [Simh] smallest pdp-11 that can run TECO and sockets(*)?
From:
Richard <[email protected]>
Date:
07/04/2012 10:34 PM
To:
SIMH <[email protected]>
In article<[email protected]>,
Johnny Billquist<[email protected]> writes:
> Besides, you mentioned before that having a real TCP/IP was not actually
> required, and that having another machine do the TCP/IP part, while your
> PDP-11 just talked over a serial port would be ok.
Yes, but it still needs to run TECO and serve files. So obviously it
can't be a 4K PDP-11/03, because AFAIK, that can't run TECO.
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