On Sun, 2008-10-05 22:33:10 Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 6 Oct 2008, at 02:07, Fred wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS
program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it
was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I
would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur
radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does
anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
So, weren't BBS's mostly text-based communications fora accessed
via direct dial-up to a modem bank attached to the BBS host? and
haven't those mostly these days been superseded by Wikis that are
accessed over TCP/IP typically via http? Or is it your goal to
gateway AX.25/TNC protocols over to HECnet? Now that would be new.
I can see it now, HECnet links over AX.25 radio links.
I can see it now, AX.25 links over HECnet internets.
An Alpha running VMS as a TNC BBS? Dude! You'd be the envy of all
your ham buddies! Go for it!
Aloha, Angela
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That DOES sound interesting. I've done a spot of Googling and haven't found anything like that, I suppose best place to ask would be comp.os.vms.
Then again, if we find nothing, it could be an amusing project of course, writing a BBS package in PL/I or Cobol or something...
Sampsa
On 6 Oct 2008, at 02:07, Fred wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
Hi everyone. I have now got a machine back on line (51.1) Petey.
All my machines have been in storeage for over a year now. Only one
machine started up when I set them up. One of the 4000/90's refuses to
do anything at all. The Alpha was ok after removing all the boards and
resitting them.
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
What machines on the network have remote access and fun things to
play with online at the moment ?
Dan
... Just a fun note; when I did POS (packet_over_sonet) that most high_speed internet links
10G and 40Gbit is using today, I basically copied DDCMP minus the
retransmission of broken packets part. It's byte_syncrounous.. -:) (As
we could not fit the HDLC bit_stuffing in the FPGA of 1995 at OC3/STM1
(155Mbit) speed.)
-P
H lscher wrote:
Hi,
what is the status of DDCMP within Linux-DECnet?
I did start a hacked version a long time ago but it's quite far from
being a working piece of software. This was wholly in userspace because
it made life easier for me. To do it 'properly' it should be implemented
as a line discipline in the kernel but that looked like far too much
hard work!
I would be happy to post what I have if anyone wants to work on
finishing it. But it's probably easier to just follow the specification
and start it again that work on someone else's unfinished code. As Paul
said, the specification is very clear. Surprisingly ;)
Chrissie
I started on that long ago; didn't get very far. (I have sample code but unfortunately it's in Macro-11 and interfaces to a RSTS terminal driver rather than the Linux line discipline stuff.)
It isn't hard, actually. You can take the DDCMP specification and just implement what it says; the spec is good enough that doing so will result in a correct implementation.
paul
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of H lscher
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:05 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] DDCMP status
Hi,
what is the status of DDCMP within Linux-DECnet?
Is there any chance that it gets finished (or at least started) in the near future?
Regards,
Ulli
