On 01/13/2017 06:45 PM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 01/13/2017 02:09 PM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I don't get much time to tinker with simH in recent years But this info helps even the already initiated yet encumbered people I might just have to get PiDP to stay fluid with using the simH
The PiDP-8/i really isolates you from simh; its goal is to be more of an appliance, an as-faithful-as-possible functional reproduction of a PDP-8/i. It's just that it's simh under the covers.
If you want to stay fluid with using simh, it's probably better to just install simh on a machine and run it.
ohh, I thought you could still use the console, so then you can attach some peripherals in simH just like on your desktop, and then you can load bigger files, For when my fingers get tired from toggling :)
You can. It's a full-blown Linux machine running a full-blown installation of simh. Simh is simh, on whatever machine it happens to be installed on. The PiDP-8/i's installation of simh just has some extensions for front panel I/O, and a set of wrappers in the form of init scripts and such to point it at different configurations based on switch settings. All I'm saying (see my other email) that if learning simh is the goal, just install simh on some random computer that you probably already have. If you want something that is a bit like a PDP-8/i, buy a PiDP-8/i. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA