From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199712070415.PAA06858@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: PDP-11: Disk over Serial proposal
To: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 15:15:41 +1100 (EST)
Cc: erin@corliss.com, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
In-Reply-To: <57g$OAAVC8h0Ewlc@falstaf.demon.co.uk> from Robin Birch at "Dec 5, 97 08:51:33 am"
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In article by Robin Birch:
> This shouldn't be a problem.  Thinking from a 2.11 point of view, if
> something that could load the standalone kernel was written and an
> additional deveice driver included that would talk over the serial line
> once the standalone stuff was up you could treat the PC, or whatever, as
> a tape drive.  Whilst this doesn't give all the frills of full disc
> access it has a couple of good thigs to it:

I was thinking of simulating a disk, as then we could manipulate the
disk image using an emulator on the PC end, and still use it on the PDP-11
end. I've made some changes to the suggestions I emailed, and if I get some
time just after Xmas, I'll try to get something working under v6. Then I
can port it up to v7 and 2BSD.

	Warren