SIMPL on a floppy
Here's what I think the SIMPL on a floppy demo should consist of:
- SIMPL receiver which can receive tokenized messages
- protocol_router and TCP/IP surrogate to allow this receive to receive
messages from remote Linux system
- appropriate ethernet drivers
- hostname and IP address to be configurable as some screen questions
on startup
- should be downloadable as binary image
Additionally we should produce a SIMPL stimulator which can be run on the
remote Linux system to send messages to the SIMPL on a floppy demo.
v0.1 which can be considered a proof of concept is available on Sourceforge SIMPL site.
How to create a floppy image:
- download the simplonfloppy image from souceforge link above
- put a blank floppy into your drive
- type dd if=simplonfloppy of=/dev/fd0 bs=18432 count=80
- boot off floppy and you should be able to run SIMPL benchmark
To produce this image I used the Embedded Linux Workshop
tools.