On 10/7/2020 8:41 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:07 AM Peter Allan via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> I am looking for the following software products for a PDP-11, ideally to >> be run on RSX-11M. >> >> RJE/HASP >> 2780/3780 Protocol Emulator > > I used to do this with specialty hardware... > > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/softwareResults/Software_Results_Comboard_Brochure_1983.pdf > >> ... >> My aim is to be able to submit a remote job from a simulated PDP-11 on simh >> to a simulated IBM/370 on Hercules. The products that I mentioned seem the >> obvious way to do this, but anything that works would be helpful. > > I think the idea is fantastic. At the very least, after you identify > a suitable software package for your target, there would need to be > emulation written for whatever sync serial devices that the package > can talk to, for the PDP-11 side. I have no idea what sort of sync > serial emulation is provided by Hercules, but if you can configure a > TCP socket that pretends to be a BSC port, then that's what you'd > need. > > This is eminently do-able, but would likely require a fair bit of > plumbing to get operational. > > -ethan >
Hercules does have 2703 emulation, and bisync emulation does seem to be present in SimH. I think both support some level of TCP, so you might be able to lash them up that way - but I would expect some hiccups along the way. But that would indeed still leave the software question from the original post. I remembered reading a man page for 2780/3780 emulation under UNIX back in the day (turns out it was for AT&T PWB UNIX), and found it: http://quintile.net/pwb/rje_guide.pdf Manual Code seems to exist in http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz (And maybe other copies of PWB UNIX at tuhs.org) And then there is this, too, from 15-17 years ago, which would take work to move to the PDP-11, of course, as this is a PC program. https://hercules-390.yahoogroups.narkive.com/gGgUdOKm/rje80-3780-emulator-for-hercules-beta-version-available It still seems to exist in the files area of hercules-390 in groups.io under the "Yahoo Group files archive". I'd love to do the same thing with a UNIVAC 1004 talking to an 1108 (actually, an IBM 1410 with a telegraph attachment emulating the 1004), but I don't think the current modern OS/2200 emulation would support it. ;) JRJ
