[Oberon] Emulating an RS-232 line with the Oberon emulator

[Peter De Wachter]

And I got the link wrong...
https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Peter De Wachter <pdewacht at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is now possible with my emulator, https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon
> You can set it up like this:
>
> mkfifo pipe1 pipe2
> risc --serial-in pipe1 --serial-out pipe2 ob1.dsk &
> risc --serial-in pipe2 --serial-out pipe1 ob2.dsk &
>
> This works on Linux, I'm not sure how portable the code is.
>
> Some notes:
> * If you use this feature, the built-in PCLink1 handling is disabled.
> * Don't use the same disk image for multiple instances of the emulator.
> * You can use /dev/fd/n if you want to connect to a file descriptor
> instead of a file
> * Transfer speed might be rather poor, as the emulator pauses when it
> detects that Oberon is busy-waiting on I/O.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Andreas Pirklbauer
> <andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know how one can link TWO emulated Oberon instances? The idea
>> would be to start two Oberon instances with the Oberon emulator on a host
>> system (e.g., Mac, Linux, Windows) and then “link” them with a mechanism
>> that e.g. behaves like an RS-232 line:
>>
>> "Oberon instance A”  <--->   “Link that emulates an RS-232 link”   <—-->
>> “Oberon instance B”
>>
>> From the source code of the Oberon emulator at  www.github.com/charlesap/io
>> I see that the two file transfer commands “pcsend.sh" and “pcreceive.sh" are
>> realized via a file interface (the files PCLink.REC and PCLink.SND are
>> written by these two commands, and the emulator then reads from or writes to
>> them if the program PCLink1 running inside the emulator reads from or writes
>> to the memory addresses -56 and -52, i.e. the addresses which map the RS-232
>> line, see RS232.Mod).
>>
>> So it *should* be possible to extend this mechanism such that the two ends
>> are permanently “connected" together. On Mac or Linux, the pipe mechanism
>> might be used to accomplish this.
>>
>> -AP
>>
>>
>>
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