On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:17 PM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 12:25 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone interested, I have been working on a standardized way to put simH
on
things, such as the Pocket CHIP. This is useful, you can make a serial connection to this or the Raspberry Pi and attach a termina on the other end. It's a safe way to demo ancient operating systems if your actual hardware is not quite ready for a full weekend of exhibiting, or you don't have peripherals. Obvious to many but some may find it useful to get into simH.
I'd note that the non-pocket CHIP is also quite good (in particular, I'd rather use a real keyboard) and quite a bit cheaper. A lot of the other super-cheap Allwinner-based boards (e.g. the $10 quad-core Orange Pi One) make great SimH hosts as well, as long as you run a decent distribution on them (like Armbian).
Great write-up, Bill!
- Dave
nice work Bill, 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 About the Orange Pi, I'm amazed how much progress as been taken. Together with this and then the Banana Pi -- which they have a 8-core board now -- they are presenting fierce competition to the Raspberry Pi group, that is, in the hardware aspect. What the RPi group has in it's favor though is the immense documentation, and support, and then 3rd party support via their forum to promote this. You can almost say this is comparable to the TRS80/Tandy days with their high level of support. But I think since it revolves about the same OS, there's still an edge in the competition for support. Because the info is widely available on the interwebs, not just on one website as with RPi. Dan