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Subject: Re: PDP-11: Disk over Serial proposal (fwd)
To: shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 15:18:42 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <9712051653.AA01585@alph02.triumf.ca> from Tim Shoppa at "Dec 5, 97 08:53:53 am"
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In article by Tim Shoppa:
> Your proposal sounds very similar to the existing protocol (RSP) used
> to access remote block-addressable devices (TU58's) over a DL11 port.
> Why not just choose the RSP protocol?  It has the advantages of already
> being defined and it already has support in most DEC OS's.  It could
> be easily extended to support larger devices.  And RSP-servers
> already exist for BSD-ish systems - see, for example, 
> 
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/utils/tu58
> 
> Tim. (shoppa@triumf.ca)

How complex is the tu58 protocol? I wanted something that we could
hand-toggle the boot code, if necessary. I'll pull that file and have a look.
Thanks Tim,

	Warren