On 2001-06-14 classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org said to kees.stravers_at_iae.nl
>> I remember someone asking about loading software over a serial line
>Thinking I had on the subject is that it would be trivial,
>given the 11's console abilities (set address, deposit byte)
>to take machine code and have a PC program turn it into a
>stream of Deposit instructions, heck it could be a 'vi' macro.
You might want to take a look at VTserver, a program used to install
Ultrix-11 on an empty PDP-11 via the console port and one regular
serial line. The source is available.
ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/pub/PDP-11/Vtserver/
A WIN32 version of VTserver is at
http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/software.htm
The program is still very much in development.
Kees.
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Received on Fri Jun 15 2001 - 06:31:46 BST