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by bqt＠softjar.se

Sorry, no. Maybe I should have mentioned that this is for a PDP-11 RSX version. I have most of the files, but are missing a few. Johnny On 2019-12-06 03:25, Tom Perrine wrote: > I saw your note - I also need a Modula-2 compiler. I'm looking for the > Zurich one for UNIX/VAX. Is that the one you may have? > > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:18 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se > <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote: > > Ok. So I had plans to locate an RQDX[12] during my christmas vacation. > Unfortunately, events outside of my control have forced me to change my > christmas plans, and I no longer will be able to get my hands on an > RQDX[12] by my original plan. > > I have a bunch of RD53 disks that I want to dump out, and I need such a > controller, so now I'm searching if there is anyone who could lend me > one for a couple of weeks or so. > > I'm located in Switzerland, near Zurich. Anyone close by would > obviously > make it easy, but if anyone would be willing to ship from somewhere > else, I'd be just as happy. I could pay for the shipping and return > shipping, but can't really afford anything beyond that right now. > > I hope to locate a few missing files from a Modula-2 compiler among > other things on those disks, and if found, it will be shared with > anyone > interested. > > ? ?Johnny > > -- > Johnny Billquist? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? || "I'm on a bus > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?||? on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>? ? ? ? ? ? ?|| > Reading murder books > pdp is alive!? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?||? tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh at trailing-edge.com <mailto:Simh at trailing-edge.com> > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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RQDX1 or RQDX2

by bqt＠softjar.se

Ok. So I had plans to locate an RQDX[12] during my christmas vacation. Unfortunately, events outside of my control have forced me to change my christmas plans, and I no longer will be able to get my hands on an RQDX[12] by my original plan. I have a bunch of RD53 disks that I want to dump out, and I need such a controller, so now I'm searching if there is anyone who could lend me one for a couple of weeks or so. I'm located in Switzerland, near Zurich. Anyone close by would obviously make it easy, but if anyone would be willing to ship from somewhere else, I'd be just as happy. I could pay for the shipping and return shipping, but can't really afford anything beyond that right now. I hope to locate a few missing files from a Modula-2 compiler among other things on those disks, and if found, it will be shared with anyone interested. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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simh latest master

by bill.cu＠suddenlink.net

I am trying to find and get the latest simh master. To use pull git you have to log in. I still can't find it. There's nothing to pull. Can anyone help me out? Bill

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simh vax version

by Mark＠infocomm.com

On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:19 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > On 11/18/2019 1:53 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 10:40 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > >> On 11/18/2019 1:10 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > >>> Where did you end up with this? Did you use a newly built binary > >>> from the > >> latest source and at least get reasonable error messages when it was > >> not able to access files you mentioned? > >>> If so, were you able to actually attach the VMS license file and > >>> then access it > >> within a running VMS OS? > >>> - Mark > >>> > >>> I can't remember the source code really. I think it might have come > >>> from the https://simh.trailing-edge.com website. That's all I > >>> remember pulling any code from other than git. I believe their code > >>> is older. I have not loaded my license because I would have to have > >>> done it the old way which is fine with me. Thing is it's been so > >>> long I forget how to do it and though I'm run into some old notes > >>> over the last day or so, on paper, They aren't giving detail I need > >>> now. I have been able to run genisoimage and load the license into a > >>> ISO but forget vax's device names and such to load the ISO into the > >>> vms simulated enviornment and change the attribs and run '@' to load > >>> the license. I am just sure it would work. My memory is just gone :( > >> ??? Your TQ method is showing more than anything "//mst" when I > >> would try the vmst license . It's like it's not reading the first > >> char.? I know 'set <dev> cdrom' would be used. The <dev> and mount > >> <dev> and attrb switching I can't remember seems like it was as > >> simple as stm to stmlf. A simple line feed toggle. > > It is really frustrating for me not be able to see what you are seeing and > having you summarize what happened into phrases like "Your TQ method is > showing more than anything "//mst" when I would try the vmst license". This > gives me no information and is at best a rumor of a problem. It is hard to > respond to rumors that lack any detail. > > > > 1) Please save ALL of the following lines into a file on your Linux system called > TQ_TEST.ini in the same directory as your vmst file. > > > > SET CONSOLE -N LOG=TQ_TEST.log > > SHOW VERSION > > DIR vmst > > ATTACH TQ -FV ANSI-VMS vmst > > EXIT > > > > 2) Please run your vax simulator (in the same directory as your vmst file). > > > > Enter this command at the sim> prompt: > > DO TQ_TEST.ini > > > > 3) When it exits, please send back 2 things: > > a) The TQ_TEST.log > > b) The configuration file you use when run VMS in this simulator. > > > > Thanks. > > > > - Mark > > OK when I typed "do DQ_TEST.ini" > > I got a file error, file does not exist. That was your typing error since I asked you enter "DO TQ_TEST.ini" instead of "DO DQ_TEST.ini". > here, is the log file, DQ_TEST.LOG > > Logging to file "TQ_TEST.LOG" > Logging to file "TQ_TEST.LOG" at Mon Nov 18 14:01:36 2019 > sim> sho version > MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current > ??? Simulator Framework Capabilities: > ??????? 64b data > ??????? 64b addresses > ??????? Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP:NAT:UDP > ??????? Idle/Throttling support is available > ??????? Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support > ??????? RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support > ??????? Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue) > ??????? Asynchronous Clock support > ??????? FrontPanel API Version 12 > ??? Host Platform: > ??????? Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190223 (Red Hat 8.3.1-2) > ??????? Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Release Build) on Nov 16 > 2019 at 19:46:12 > ??????? Memory Access: Little Endian > ??????? Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits > ??????? Large File (>2GB) support > ??????? SDL Video support: No Video Support > ??????? RegEx support for EXPECT commands > ??????? OS clock resolution: 1ms > ??????? Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms > ??????? Ethernet packet info: libpcap version 1.9.1 (with TPACKET_V3) > ??????? Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms > ??????? OS: Linux local 5.3.6-100.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 14 > 21:48:12 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > ??????? git commit id: 318b0e32 > ??????? git commit time: 2019-11-16T00:39:01-08:00 > sim> dir vmst > ?Directory of / > > 11/18/2019? 02:00 PM??????????? 79,508 mst > ?????????????? 1 File(s)??????????? 79,508 bytes > ?????????????? 0 Dir(s) > sim> att tq -fv ansi-vms vmst > Can't stat: //mst > Can't open ANSI-VMS format tape image: vmst > sim> ex > Too few arguments > sim> q > Goodbye > Log file closed Very interesting. Of course, I've never sat and had a simulator mess with files in the root directory (/) so I never saw this bug in the file scanning code. I suspect that if you move the license file to another directory, things will work just fine. Now that I've actually seen the failure it is easily reproduced (having nothing specific to do with the ANSI-VMS logic - it was demonstrated by the DIR command which uses the same internal file name scanning). If you pick up the latest code and rebuild the simulator, you can keep your files in the root directory if you want. :-). Once you get that far, the: ATT TQ -F ANSI-VMS vmst Will work, and then once VMS is running and you've logged in: $ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0: $ COPY MUA0:VMST. SYS$LOGIN: $ @SYS$LOGIN:VMST. This will install the licenses cleanly. It seems that VMS's DCL execution can't handle command procedures run directly from magtape that have IF THEN ELSE statements in them, hence the need to copy the file to disk first. - Mark

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simh vax version

by bill.cu＠suddenlink.net

Ok version number or "git commit id" On the version I am using is 178968a, the version I downloaded from the link you sent me is bdc677b7. They are indeed very different. Bill

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simh vax version

by Mark＠infocomm.com

Hi Bill, I have no idea what you are actually typing, but this is a session I just did on my Android phone (Linux): Note that the -v switch for tape attaches gets it to be verbose about what is going on under the covers. $ cd simh $ BIN/vax MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current gi t commit id: 178968a6 sim> att tq -vf ansi-vms sim* SIM_BUILDROMS.C 11 blocks of data SIM_CARD.C 30 blocks of data SIM_CARD.H 3 blocks of data SIM_CONSOLE.C 90 blocks of data SIM_CONSOLE.H 4 blocks of data SIM_DEFS.H 36 blocks of data SIM_DISK.C 105 blocks of data SIM_DISK.H 3 blocks of data SIM_ETHER.C 91 blocks of data SIM_ETHER.H 12 blocks of data SIM_FIO.C 18 blocks of data SIM_FIO.H 3 blocks of data SIM_FRONTPANEL.C 55 blocks of data SIM_FRONTPANEL.H 13 blocks of data SIM_IMD.C 17 blocks of data SIM_IMD.H 4 blocks of data SIM_REV.H 69 blocks of data SIM_SCSI.C 35 blocks of data SIM_SCSI.H 4 blocks of data SIM_SERIAL.C 42 blocks of data SIM_SERIAL.H 3 blocks of data SIM_SOCK.C 25 blocks of data SIM_SOCK.H 4 blocks of data SIM_TAPE.C 102 blocks of data SIM_TAPE.H 7 blocks of data SIM_TIMER.C 78 blocks of data SIM_TIMER.H 5 blocks of data SIM_TMXR.C 125 blocks of data SIM_TMXR.H 12 blocks of data SIM_VIDEO.C 47 blocks of data SIM_VIDEO.H 5 blocks of data Tape Image made from 'sim*' scanned as ANSI-VMS format. contains 2181744 bytes of tape data (1245 record s, 94 tapemarks) sim> att tq -fv ansi-vms scp.c SCP.C 318 blocks of data Tape Image made from 'scp.c' scanned as ANSI-VMS format. contains 651824 bytes of tape data (325 records, 4 tapemarks) sim> Notice that it seems to easily find the desired files and place them on the tape. One thing that I usually ask for on bug reports and/or support requests is the output produced by SHOW VERSION and the output produced when you build the simulator with "make vax". I leave how for you to gather that info up to you on your chosen working environment. - Mark On Nov 15, 2019 11:05 AM, Bill Cunningham <bill.cu at suddenlink.net> wrote: On 11/14/2019 10:48 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 7:42 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: >> Ok version number or "git commit id" On the version I am using is 178968a, the >> version I downloaded from the link you sent me is bdc677b7. >> They are indeed very different. > Well, git commit ids are merely a hash value. There is nothing sequential about them. 178968a is from some 11 days ago and should certainly be more recent enough to perform the steps I outlined, so you shouldn't need to rebuild the simulator. > >>> $ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0: >> The above gives me a list of errors. The OS does not like it at all and IDK how >> to copy the errors to a file to post them. It wants >> _BUC$MUA0: . Not MUA0: at all. > 2 things: > > 1) Don't expect later commands to be even slightly useful until AFTER you get the earlier commands working as expected (i.e. the proper ATT TQ -F ANSI-VMS command). > > 2) Either _BUC$MUA0: or simply MUA0: will work once you've gotten far enough along. If it doesn't then please show us exactly what error messages you are receiving. > > You seemed to suggest that you were working on a Linux environment, use cut and paste from the xterm session you are running under. If that's not what you're using, then please explain exactly what's going on. Since you don't seem to be that familiar with working in this environment, how did you manage to get the license file from where you received the email to the environment you're running simh in? > > - Mark One thing I despise generally Mark is GUIs, I have been working from CLI. But I installed the LDXE desktop environment which I don't know much about but copy/paste should be simple. LDXE gave me one Hell of a time with copy/paste, and absolutely whatever I did would not let me select from xterm or the desktop the errors. So I wrote them down and will simply copy myself. sim> att tq -f ansi-vms vmst /* the license file */ Can't open: //mst - no such file or directory. Can't open tape image. Of course there might be something I am forgetting and not doing here. I also type at the prompt in all caps, same result. For example, ATT -F ANSI-VMS VMST Same errors. Bill

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simh vax version

by Mark＠infocomm.com

The makefile senses things about the host environment and then invokes the compile with indicators about what it finds (or doesn't find). That output will be telling. You might be able to gather that with something like 'make vax | tee make.output' - Mark On Nov 15, 2019 2:39 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill.cu at suddenlink.net> wrote: On 11/15/2019 3:13 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I have no idea what you are actually typing, but this is a session I > just did on my Android phone (Linux): > > Note that the -v switch for tape attaches gets it to be verbose about > what is going on under the covers. > > ... > Tape Image made from 'sim*' scanned as ANSI-VMS > format. > contains 2181744 bytes of tape data (1245 record > s, 94 tapemarks) > Humm. I saw something like this. Do you need the exact word? Sure no problem. But it was something like this, "scanned as simh file (or format). contains 0 bytes of tape data 0 records 0 tapemarks. " And no tape available. Does that help? I can dig it right up, If I can remember how to do it, lol. And I will. Bill

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Getting openvms going

by bill.cu＠suddenlink.net

Hello, I have a license for openvms and an old openvms file. It's been so long I can't remember how to get the license into the simulator and simulated OS and apply it. If I can figure out how to do that I will try to get a C compiler and some TCP/IP things into the VMS. ??? Does anyone know where I can get some help loading the license. I seem to remember creating a ISO filewith the license in it and changing some attribs in VMS. Bill

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New HECnet nodes

by ian＠platinum.net

Johnny, Can you please add the following nodes to your master list? They should be connected later today: 42.10 BOB:: 42.11 DOUG:: Thanks!! Ian

5 years, 7 months

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SCSI2SD for our vintage HECnet systems?

by jrbrady65＠gmail.com

Hello All, In the interest of keeping our HECnet systems up and running, has anyone had experience with replacing hard drives with a SCSI2SD device? This is for an AlphaStation 400 4/233 with 2Gb RZ28E and M drives (Seagate ST32430N and Quantum), 50-pin connector. Also a DEC 3000 M400 with an RZ26 1Gb drive. Are the SCSI2SD units fully compatible and reliable? Can you recommend a particular model/brand that works well with our vintage DEC systems? If this has been addressed previously, appreciate a pointer to the discussion. Thank you, Jason

5 years, 7 months

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Altavista source

by supratim＠riseup.net

Hello all, If Altavista was developed by the folks at WRL, SRC and NSL and the source code was released into public domain at some point, there would be a tape dump or something somewhere, wouldn?t it? Any known places too look at? Regards, Supratim --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet

5 years, 8 months

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Connections to area 29 - issues

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, Apologies for some of the intermittent connection problems to/from area29. I was being hit with a very small part of some DDOS reflection traffic targeted at some cloud providers. This wasn't causing the actual issues however. In making a series of incremental, and in some cases automated changes to firewall rules and threshold settings, it would appear that the router needs a reboot following any major changes. Apparently, there's a bit of garbage created when rules are moved around, changed and deleted which degrades throughput until a reboot is performed. I suppose you could call it a bug in their software. Just FYI Keith

5 years, 8 months

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Problems with Alphaserver ES45 and FC disks

by ian＠platinum.net

Hello All, I recently acquired/rescued a rack of Alphaserver gear that was going to get scrapped. In the rack is two ES45 servers (with no local drive cages), and a 3-shelf HSG80 Fibre Channel disk system. There were no drives, but I have plenty of this form factor and so I?ve fully populated all three shelves. The original system apparently ran Tru64 Unix, but I don?t have much interest in that. I?d love to get the two machines running in an OpenVMS cluster. I?ve managed to figure out the HSG80 array, and I am serving up acouple of FC LUNs. I can verify this because I?ve got wwidmgr on the Alpha?s to see and create a drive (dgb2). However, when I attempt to boot OpenVMS Alpha 8.4 from CD-ROM, the install process doesn?t recognize the FC drive and offer it as an installation target. Is anyone familiar with this generation of gear and possibly give me a pointer or two about what I might be doing wrong? Perhaps I need a newer OpenVMS install? Is there ISO images of various versions lurking around hecNET that anyone is willing to share? Thanks for any suggestions! Ian

5 years, 8 months

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Curious about DECnet/Python

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, Ok, so I've noticed... and I'm curious about DECnet/Python. Are there any details? Keith

5 years, 8 months

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GRE mesh | Tunnel to Area 23?

by supratim＠riseup.net

My GRE tunnel to Mark Thomas' Area 23 is down for a few days now. All other tunnels are up. Here's the interface; any advice appreciated. Thank you. Tunnel23 is up, line protocol is up ? Hardware is Tunnel ? Description: HECnet tunnel for Mark G Thomas (Area 23) [Version:307] ? MTU 1514 bytes, BW 9 Kbit/sec, DLY 500000 usec, ???? reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 ? Encapsulation TUNNEL, loopback not set ? Keepalive not set ? Tunnel source 10.42.2.204 (FastEthernet0/1), destination 71.246.8.102 ? Tunnel protocol/transport GRE/IP ??? Key disabled, sequencing disabled ??? Checksumming of packets disabled ? Tunnel TTL 255 ? Fast tunneling enabled ? Path MTU Discovery, ager 10 mins, min MTU 92, MTU 0, expires never ? Tunnel transmit bandwidth 8000 (kbps) ? Tunnel receive bandwidth 8000 (kbps) ? Last input 1w5d, output 00:00:04, output hang never ? Last clearing of "show interface" counters never ? Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 ? Queueing strategy: fifo ? Output queue: 0/0 (size/max) ? 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec ? 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec ???? 74013 packets input, 5838030 bytes, 0 no buffer ???? Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles ???? 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort ???? 213256 packets output, 13234292 bytes, 0 underruns ???? 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets ???? 0 unknown protocol drops ???? 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out CISCO7204VXR_IMPRTR>show decnet route ? Area?????? Cost? Hops?????????? Next Hop to Node Expires? Prio *1??????????? 13???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *2??????????? 22???? 4???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *4??????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *5??????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *7??????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *8??????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *12?????????? 20???? 1??????????? Tunnel12 -> A12RTR 35???? 64? A+ *19?????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *22?????????? 20???? 1??????????? Tunnel22 -> A22RTR 44???? 64? A+ *23?????????? 30???? 2??????????? Tunnel22 -> A22RTR *24?????????? 16???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *27?????????? 10???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *28?????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *29?????????? 13???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *30?????????? 10???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *31??????????? 0???? 0???????????? (Local) -> IMPRTR *33?????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *34?????????? 24???? 4???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *39??????????? 8???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *41??????????? 8???? 2???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *42?????????? 20???? 1??????????? Tunnel42 -> HUB 32???? 64? A+ *55?????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *59?????????? 17???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *60?????????? 21???? 3???? FastEthernet0/0 -> IMPVAX *61?????????? 20???? 1??????????? Tunnel61 -> A61RTR 36???? 64? A+ -- Sent via Thunderbird/MX-Linux on an overheated Compaq Presario CQ61

5 years, 9 months

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Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

by bqt＠softjar.se

Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . TCP have had some potential fatal bugs fixed, and some significant performance improvements. . FTP have received significant performance improvements. . Various tools and drivers have had improvements in order to support more than one ethernet interface. *** For these reasons, it is strongly recommended that systems be upgraded to the latest version at your earliest convenience. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: IPGEN: . Corrected IPGEN to be able to generate configurations with multiple Ethernet interfaces. . Bugfix for no purge options, which did not work. IF: . Bugfix in interface driver. IO.RIF did not return proper status. UDP: . Added ability in UDP to bind socket to specific interface. TCP: . Improved TCP retransmission strategy. . Rewrote TCP ACK generation and window update handling. . Bugfix. A TCP connection in the process of closing down would just absorb incoming SYN packets to the connection. They should be responded to with a RST. . Bugfix in some longword processing that could potentially cause wrong effects under rare circumstances. . Bugfix in TCP. I/O writes of more than 8K was accepted, but actual data was not transferred correctly. . Bugfix in TCP. I/O reads of more than 8K was accepted, but should not. This could crash the system. DHCP: . Corrected DHCP to detect if interface do not start. . Rewritten DHCP to handle interfaces properly also if there are multiple interfaces using DHCP. . Rewritten DHCP to better handle options and to try explicit renews instead of always starting over with request when time is up. IFCONFIG: . Add indication in IFCONFIG SHOW IF to indicate if interface is running, also for DHCP controlled interfaces. TELNETD: . Added additional space in telnet UCB, and telnetd now stores remote address in UCB. (Separate changes to RSX can enable reading this out via QIO to TT:) SPOOF: . Added notifying the SPOOF handler for some more TCP situations. . Bugfix in SPOOF. Under some circumstances, it could loose track of hosts it was blocking, and never unblock them. . Changed spoofer to be capable of blocking different network block sizes. FTP/FTPD: . Improved file handling in FTP for RSX and block mode. Performance is now close to 2x as fast as before in some situations. Multinet: . Improved handling of connections in Multinet. . Added ability to change mode of Multinet links to either be VMS compatible, or pure DDCMP style. . Bugfix in MLTNET. There was an odd address error in one place. . Improved MLTNET handling and recovery from some communication errors. . Updated IPNCONFIG.CMD to new version from Oleg Safiullin. MAILD: . Corrected block lock handling in MAILD, which could sometimes keep blocks locked for long times for no good reason. . Mailbox format slightly changed. MBXUPD needed for upgrade. XLISP: . Added port as a parameter to connect function in XLISP. Datatrieve-11: . Added proper interface to Datetrieve-11 from PDP-11 C. MCR: . Bugfix. DEV /FILES could crash RSX. *** Important notice about MAILD *** The changes to MAILD are not seamless. When installing the new version, the mailbox update program should be run, in order to upgrade all user mailboxes to the new mailbox format. The task for this is MBXUPD.TSK. There are no issues with running this task several times. A mailbox that has already been updates will not be modified anymore by the update task. As usual, the distribution is available from: ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

5 years, 9 months

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Another date limit?

by paulkoning＠comcast.net

In the Phase IV network management spec the description of the encoding of the event log message has this field: JULIAN HALF DAY (2) : B Number of half days since 1 Jan 1977 and before 9 Nov 2021 (0-32767). For example, the morning of Jan 1, 1977 is 0. It's a 16 bit field containing a 15 bit value; there is no explanation why the upper bit is not used even though it's marked as an unsigned integer. As shown, the field overflows in late 2021. If one ignores the arbitrary limit of 15 bits, the end date is 18 September 2066, which is more civilized. I wonder if implementations ignore the 15 bit limit. I think RSTS/E ignores it. paul

5 years, 10 months

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RQDX2?

by bqt＠softjar.se

I'm searching for an RQDX2 controller. I know this is maybe a bit off from normal HECnet discussions, but I'm hoping that maybe some people might happen to have some real hardware. I have a few RD53 drives I'd like to read out the contents of, and it seems they were controlled by an RQDX1 or RQDX2. I have an RQDX3 controller, however, the on disk format differs between the RQDX1/2 and the RQDX3, so I don't have any ability to read the drives right now. Since I am in Switzerland (near Zurich) someone local would be much easier, but if someone somewhere else have a card, is willing to ship it, and don't expect a bunch of money in return, I'm interested in that too. If nothing pops up, and can solve this myself at Christmas, when I go back to Sweden, where I have access to more hardware. But being an impatient guy, I'm trying this option as well... :-) Also, an RQDX1 should also work, but if possible, I prefer the RQDX2, since the RQDX1 have some additional issues... And of course, if I manage to get the data out from the drives, there might be some useful things on there that I can share in the end (I'm specifically searching for a few files needed to complete a Modula-2 compiler that exists for RSX). Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

5 years, 10 months

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HECnet routing costs

by bqt＠softjar.se

People, I have written a page about DECnet costs and HECnet costs, which I would recommend that anyone interested read through. It contains a bit of elaboration on how DECnet does routing, and gives some suggestions on how costs could be set on HECnet to make it perform better. I have noticed over the years that sometimes we do get really silly routing decisions just because of how people set, or do not set costs. The page I've written is by no means perfect, nor are the suggestions in there. But feel free to come with feedback, or ignore it. But I am going to try and use this myself more properly from now on, and that means that if others don't, you probably are going to get more traffic through your nodes. Traffic that probably do not make sense that it passes through you, but I just feel that I prefer to try and make it work right from my point of view, and then just at least tell people how I worked my numbers out. If someone have a different idea, I'm open to changing my settings, but I will not try and do optimizations to achieve: a) Same paths for packets in both directions - DECnet explicitly does not do this. b) Specifically penalize one type of interface because of any subjective preference about that type of interface in general. Oh - and the link to my writeup: http://mim.update.uu.se/costs.htm Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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DECnet/E install

by paulkoning＠comcast.net

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

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DECnet Implementation and Productization of RSX-11M, 11S, 11D and IAS (was Re: Anonymous FAL (Tops-20))

by wilson＠dbit.com

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

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Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

by tommytimesharing＠gmail.com

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.

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Windows 10 DECnet?

by bygg＠cafax.se

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)

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Windows 10 DECnet?

by tommytimesharing＠gmail.com

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.

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DECnet Implementation and Productization of RSX-11M, 11S, 11D and IAS (was Re: Anonymous FAL (Tops-20))

by bygg＠cafax.se

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)

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