I've worked on RSTS and DECnet/E for a long time but I only very rarely do a formal install, so I don't have the knowledge handy.
I just did a V10.1 install, and now would like to do the matching DECnet install, but I can't figure out how to do that and I can't find a DECnet/E installation manual.
Can anyone give a quick outline of how to do this?
paul
From: John Forecast <john at forecast.name>
[E11 on MIM]
>Does the simulator actually simulate the caches or just the control registers
>like SIMH?
Just the control registers. I hate doing an emulation of a speed-up
feature which actually slows it down (which is the case with the FASTBUS:
emulation for dual PDP-11/45s but there was no way around that -- making
the memory inherently mP-safe meant dinking with locks on every access,
so it's *much* slower to touch it than non-"FAST" core).
It might be interesting to do as a SET CPU option though, for testing how
code would behave in nasty cases on a real 11/74. The fetch/decode/dispatch
loop and the most common instructions are recompiled (from scripts) on every
SET CPU command, so options like this can be added without penalty, as long
as they're disabled by default. It'd be pretty painful though, since in this
case *anything* that touches memory would have to be compiled at runtime,
so it'd be a lot more code than it is now (less common instructions are
static and check the SET CPU flags themselves on the fly rather than having
their behavior hard-coded into the compiled code).
John Wilson
D Bit
I have some software that I'd like to post, but don't recall how to
configure FAL to allow for an anonymous connection; to download from a
restricted directory.
I know how to do it for the FTP server (seeing as I wrote it), but ...
different code base.
I can only vaguely remember what we did for CCnet at Columbia University
in the 1980's, but I think it was kind of a hack.
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> My experience with latd in Linux is that it sucks. It sortof works if
> you are lucky, but there are problems in it, which makes it undesirable
> to use with RSX at least.
My experience is that for connecting to a Tops-[12]0 system it works,
even if the thing, as you say, sucks in several ways. Considering
myself lucky then.
--Johnny (the other one)
Does anybody know what the status of any types of drivers for DECnet or
LAT on Windows 7 or above?
I have the CD's from HP for Windows 2000, but I'll be darned if I can
lay hands on them.? So I have a Windows 2000 laptop that has LAT on it
and I can use that to run Kermit, which has been useful when I have
really destroyed things.
However, I just got a new Windows 10 machine and I'd like to put DECnet
on it.? So is that bring your wallet?? Anybody know anything about
PuTTY??? That would be straightforward to adapt to NRT and (maybe) LAT.?
One assumes CTERM would be more effort.
I have the latd package on one of my Linux hosts and that works great.?
Right into the 20.? I have to scrounge up another Ethernet adapter
before I reconfigure the whole thing for DECnet because of some
connectivity issues.
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> > 2. MCB; what was developed on it past your snapshot (Phase II).
>
> I can't even remember, or realize what MCB stands for now. :-)
Multi-Communication-Base comes to mind.
--Johnny (the other one)
Hi,
Is anybody running the NPTD functionality in Multinet 5.5 on VAX VMS 7.3 (under SIMH)? If so, how did you get it to work. I switched it on with a simple NTP.CONF and tried to query it. The logfile doesn't change much and I/O counts go up slowly. My attempts to query it usually result in a traceback. I'm a bit concerned by the lack of an NTPDATE command mentioned in the documentation, despite having done a full install. The timezone facility is a bit primitive too.
I'm thinking of giving up with it. I have local TCP services on the machines hosting SIMH instances. One of them returns a local time string in VMS format, so I may make use of that in an RDATE-like fashion.
Keith
Anybody else out there running DECnet on Linux? I recently upgraded from
the 4.4.0-148 kernel to 4.4.0-151 and find that DECnet does not work with
the latter. Connections always seem to hang at minimum, and frequently
cause kernel panics. Has anybody found a fix for this, or is this the end
of the road?
BTW, 4.4.0-151 was released recently to fix the TCP SACK kernel panic
problem.
Bob
Anyone familiar with the timeline for renewing Hobbyist licenses lately?
I registered on the HPE site.
In the past the turnaround was very quick, but it's been several days and nothing; so curious if this is the new timeline.
thanks
Mike