Re: changes on usim/trunk

[Björn Victor]

On 2025-01-15 21:35, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> We already (sorta ...) provide a default usim.ini by virtue of a
> release usim-nnn-m.ini.  That sets name, directories and other such.
>
> Bjorn, do you have a better idea? I was under the impression that Lisp
> Machine resident hackers would use their own usim.ini (since Chaos
> address, directories, etc are different ..) so some default is not
> really that intersting.
>
> For "lusers" -- you'd juse use the usim-303.ini or some such that I
> (might) provide when dumping a major release?
The release usim-nnn-m.ini is a good place for defaults (and, perhaps 
commented out, defaults). The point here is to make it run "out of the 
box" as much as possible, right?

I think using default Chaos addresses on subnet 376 would be good, like 
ITS does. It would make it easier for people who run ITS (which is 
*rather a lot* of people these days, thanks to the PiDP-10 project) to 
try out the CADR. It would make sense to explain (perhaps in the 
usim-nnn-m.ini) how to use the hosts.txt from the ITS distro.

-- Björn