PiDP-8/I Software

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Ticket Hash: 1b97050efa860639097a1027096017169c3a9369
Title: Offer access to the Pi's network stack via IOT instructions
Status: Verified Type: Feature Request
Severity: Minor Priority: Low
Subsystem: peripherals Resolution: Open
Last Modified: 2016-12-01 06:44:32
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tangent added on 2016-12-01 06:44:13:
Define a new "device type" for the Pi's network stack, which SimH would recognize and forward the data to/from the inner PDP-8.

Just to pick some random numbers, device ID 42 might be straight UDP, with sub-commands for setting communication parameters, device ID 43 the same for TCP, then maybe some higher-level ones for speaking common protocols like HTTP so all the parsing doesn't have to be done in 4 kwords of core on a box where ASCII is optional.