On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Steve Davidson wrote:
I was wondering what use everyone is making of HECnet. My environment
(DECnet area 19) has just come up. Johnny and I have done simple tests and
everything that we have tried so far seems to work quite well.
I enjoyed the HECNet Notes conference on MONK:: while it was up (I'd love to host that myself, or see if someone else could pick that up - I'm *this* close to hooking up my Alpha, MISER to a battery).
I also know some other folks have demo/guest accounts set up on their systems, and of course like a bone-head I forgot to save some of them when they came across the list. I probably should dig in the mailman archives for them. Once I reorganize my home office I also have a VAXStation 4000/90A I'd like to get on HECNet as well as someday perhaps being able to acquire one of those Itaniums I see on eBay that go for cheap occasionally.
Cheers,
Fred
Northern Ohio, USA
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Hi,
I was wondering what use everyone is making of HECnet. My environment (DECnet area 19) has just come up. Johnny and I have done simple tests and everything that we have tried so far seems to work quite well.
Comments?
Thanks,
-Steve Davidson
Hollis, NH USA
it's ok from Italy!
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Da: gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Data: 17/02/2009 22.32
A: "hecnet at update.uu.se"<hecnet at update.uu.se>
Ogg: [HECnet] Test!
If anyone does see this, please confirm.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
saw it...
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
If anyone does see this, please confirm.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
speaking of hecnet I posted the 'updated' version of the simh stuff on
the simh list, and the full source/binary stuff is available at
sourceforge....
If anyone does see this, please confirm.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Does anyone have experience with setting up NEWSRDR to authenticate to my ISP's mail server, or is there a client out there for OpenVMS that supports this? This error message suggests that NEWSRDR does not.
I think you want to point it at your ISP's news server. :-)
Erm ...
The HECNet list is required to read my mind, didn't you know that? ;) ;)
That's what I get for sending out a message right before I turn in for the night ...
ISTR trying NEWSRDR about 10 years ago, but at that point my ISP didn't require a login for the news server (i.e. this was before they outsourced it). No clue on if it supports authentication or not.
Gotcha. It successfully connects, but gets confused when the news server wants authentication. I may try to find a copy of ANU News and try that. I was browsing around on c.o.v and saw that someone was able to patch NEWSRDR to do authentication - I may mail that gentleman directly and see if I cold acquire a copy.
Cheers,
Fred
At 8:29 PM -0500 11/12/08, Fred wrote:
Good evening:
I fetched NEWSRDR off of one of the Freeware distribution sites, and after configuring things, settings up logicals, etc ... an attempt to run NEWSRDR results in:
%NEWS-I-UPDATING, locating unread articles; please wait...
%NEWS-E-UNEXPRSP, unexpected response from server: "480 Authentication Required"
Does anyone have experience with setting up NEWSRDR to authenticate to my ISP's mail server, or is there a client out there for OpenVMS that supports this? This error message suggests that NEWSRDR does not.
I think you want to point it at your ISP's news server. :-)
ISTR trying NEWSRDR about 10 years ago, but at that point my ISP didn't require a login for the news server (i.e. this was before they outsourced it). No clue on if it supports authentication or not.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Good evening:
I fetched NEWSRDR off of one of the Freeware distribution sites, and after configuring things, settings up logicals, etc ... an attempt to run NEWSRDR results in:
%NEWS-I-UPDATING, locating unread articles; please wait...
%NEWS-E-UNEXPRSP, unexpected response from server: "480 Authentication Required"
Does anyone have experience with setting up NEWSRDR to authenticate to my ISP's mail server, or is there a client out there for OpenVMS that supports this? This error message suggests that NEWSRDR does not.
Apologies if this is slightly off topic, but there's far less noise here than comp.os.vms - plus I don't have to wear my "asbestos underwear" here.
Cheers,
Fred
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Expert, n.:
Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.
Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
While rebuilding my collection of PDF files from BitSaver's archives I
came across a collection of items that state something about RSX and
DecNet. I am curious naturally if anyone on this list has ever met
such an oddity.
What is supposed to be the "oddity" about it?
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>ncp sho exec cha
Node characteristics as of 9-NOV-08 23:45:41
Executor node = 1.13 (MIM)
Identification = "RSX system at Update, Sweden", Management version = 4.2.0
Host = 1.13 (MIM), Loop count = 1
Loop length = 40, Loop with = Mixed
Incoming timer = 15, Outgoing timer = 30
NSP version = 4.0.0
Maximum links = 10, Delay factor = 32
Delay weight = 2
Inactivity timer = 30, Retransmit factor = 5
Routing version = 2.0.0, Type = Area
Routing timer = 300
Broadcast routing timer = 40, Maximum address = 1023
Maximum circuits = 1
Maximum cost = 1022
Maximum hops = 10, Maximum visits = 20
Maximum area = 63, Maximum broadcast endnodes = 32
Maximum broadcast routers = 5
Area maximum cost = 1022, Area maximum hops = 10
Incoming proxy = Enabled
Outgoing proxy = Enabled
Segment buffer size = 576
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Hello!
While rebuilding my collection of PDF files from BitSaver's archives I
came across a collection of items that state something about RSX and
DecNet. I am curious naturally if anyone on this list has ever met
such an oddity.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:16:03PM -0500, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
While rebuilding my collection of PDF files from BitSaver's archives I
came across a collection of items that state something about RSX and
DecNet. I am curious naturally if anyone on this list has ever met
such an oddity.
DECnet was originally developed on RSX-11 (Phase I) and DECnet as of Phase IV
still runs on RSX-11. RSX-11 Cannot run Phase V, however.
-brian
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"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
Brian Hechinger wrote:
I went from being one of the original HECnet members with Johnny, to not
having anything to do with it for years.
I'm back. :)
I just rescued a pair of VAX 4000/500 boxes which I plan on setting up as
a cluster once I get the second node online (right now only the one is
running, need to find some stuff to get the second one online) and I thought
that I should really get linked back into HECnet.
Just thought I'd say Hi and let you all know what's going on.
Howdy.
Peace... Sridhar
I went from being one of the original HECnet members with Johnny, to not
having anything to do with it for years.
I'm back. :)
I just rescued a pair of VAX 4000/500 boxes which I plan on setting up as
a cluster once I get the second node online (right now only the one is
running, need to find some stuff to get the second one online) and I thought
that I should really get linked back into HECnet.
Just thought I'd say Hi and let you all know what's going on.
-brian
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"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
Just wanted to share the photos.
I was at The Alternate Party with 20 VaxStations/Microvaxen.
Young people were more interested about playing Tetris but some
old-timers also had interest for the cluster.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7441&l=39349&id=1456476365
Regards,
--Saku
At 9:04 PM +0100 10/22/08, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403).
It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an
account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64.
Very nice! I'm quite envious, 8.3-1H1 is Itanium only, which means the Alpha doesn't have iSCSI support yet. I'd love to know if you can use iSCSI on a system running 8.3-1H1 to connect to a box running FreeNAS.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Oh yeah, my bad.
Sorry, the box wasnt running at the time so I never got around to downloading it. Well, C down, the rest to go :)
Sampsa
On 23 Oct 2008, at 00:39, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:34:23 +0100, you wrote:
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the
licenses to run them. :(
Didn't you receive my mail with the URL to the C compiler?
G.
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:34:23 +0100, you wrote:
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the
licenses to run them. :(
Didn't you receive my mail with the URL to the C compiler?
G.
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the licenses to run them. :(
Is there anyone here with a DSPP membership or something who could get me the distributions?
Sampsa
On 22 Oct 2008, at 22:28, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
BTW, did you find other interesting software for OpenVMS on Itanium? ;-)
Cheers,
G.
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Gentlemen,
I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403).
It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an
account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64.
Fun. So now I've played with a PDP-11 running RSX, talking to an Itanium box running VMS. Talk about a leap across computer generations and timelines.
Johnny
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:39:52 +0100, you wrote:
Yes, very many thanks for that. Didn't want to publicise your
contribution without your approval of course :)
I'm very happy your Itanium is running fine! :-) Speaking about the IA64 kit,
I think that discretion is a must: I've not told you how we knew about it, and
you should't say who told you about it, let's say some friend gave you a
helping hand. :-) For the very same reason I think it would not be very safe
to publish the URLs on-list or in other public places, but if someone asks
privately I think (s)he should be provided with the URLs, along with a
recommendation about the discretion issue and the importance of this "secret".
BTW, did you find other interesting software for OpenVMS on Itanium? ;-)
Cheers,
G.
Yes, very many thanks for that. Didn't want to publicise your contribution without your approval of course :)
Sampsa
On 22 Oct 2008, at 21:34, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:27:03 +0100, you wrote:
Ah yes, that was quite the adventure, ended up getting an, erhm,
unofficial .BCK install image, restored it to a LD image on CHIMP and
served it over Infoserver, the install was fairly straightforward
after that :)
;-) :-P :->
G. (Your OpenVMS IA64 "provider")
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:27:03 +0100, you wrote:
Ah yes, that was quite the adventure, ended up getting an, erhm,
unofficial .BCK install image, restored it to a LD image on CHIMP and
served it over Infoserver, the install was fairly straightforward
after that :)
;-) :-P :->
G. (Your OpenVMS IA64 "provider")
Ah yes, that was quite the adventure, ended up getting an, erhm, unofficial .BCK install image, restored it to a LD image on CHIMP and served it over Infoserver, the install was fairly straightforward after that :)
Sampsa
On 22 Oct 2008, at 21:16, Fred wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403).
It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an
account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64.
*drool*
MISER, my AlphaStation 255/233 looks in your general direction with envy.
Where did you end up finding an install DVD? I remember reading in c.o.v. where you trying to get the beast up and running but my newshost isn't the best, and I never saw the outcome.
Glad to hear it worked out well.
Cheers,
Fred
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Expert, n.:
Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.
