[Simh] Raspbian repository versus Github current

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Am I correct in that the version stored somewhere in the Raspbian
repositories is too old to properly grok the idea of using a physical
serial port to talk to a terminal device versus the current Github
one?

I'm planning a project, note the keyword, "planning" in that I'd be
running an appropriate release of UNIX or BSD on the PDP-11 emulated,
and it would need a serial port to talk to a terminal device.

Networking is as it happens optional.
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"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

[Mark Pizzolato]

Post by Gregg Levine
Hello!
Am I correct in that the version stored somewhere in the Raspbian repositories
is too old to properly grok the idea of using a physical serial port to talk to a
terminal device versus the current Github one?
I'm planning a project, note the keyword, "planning" in that I'd be running an
appropriate release of UNIX or BSD on the PDP-11 emulated, and it would need
a serial port to talk to a terminal device.

The simh Current version at https://github.com/simh/simh can connect
simulated serial port to a physical serial port on the host system. Linux
packaged simh versions are some 8 years old and don't have that functionality.

$ git clone https://github.com/simh/simh
$ cd simh
$ make pdp11

A simh simulator accessing the host system's serial ports on Linux either
requires running as root or changing the permissions on the serial port
device(s) in /dev

- Mark

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Then the question becomes having the console, that is the simh prompt,
be seen on what's connecting to the Raspberry Pi via SSH startup that
simh/PDP-11 one and after UNIX finishes starting up, the serial port
itself provides the user prompt. How would I set that up?
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Gregg C Levine ***@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

Post by Mark Pizzolato

Post by Gregg Levine
Hello!
Am I correct in that the version stored somewhere in the Raspbian repositories
is too old to properly grok the idea of using a physical serial port to talk to a
terminal device versus the current Github one?
I'm planning a project, note the keyword, "planning" in that I'd be running an
appropriate release of UNIX or BSD on the PDP-11 emulated, and it would need
a serial port to talk to a terminal device.

The simh Current version at https://github.com/simh/simh can connect
simulated serial port to a physical serial port on the host system. Linux
packaged simh versions are some 8 years old and don't have that functionality.
$ git clone https://github.com/simh/simh
$ cd simh
$ make pdp11
A simh simulator accessing the host system's serial ports on Linux either
requires running as root or changing the permissions on the serial port
device(s) in /dev
- Mark