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by tonyblews＠gmail.com

I'll have a try... i'm sure to have a 5.25 drive around here somewhere. Anyway back to the Ultrix/DECnet marlarkey. I found an image of a decnet tape, but i ran into the old PAK problem. So its installed, but won't work. Any idea on a way round this? Or should I just be content that TCP/IP works on it, and move on to something else... Linux DECnet on a Pi is high on my hitlist at the moment. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: Can you DD the disks? I'd love a play :) Sampsa On 29 Jun 2012, at 00:16, Tony Blews wrote: The boxes say SCO Interactive. For the x386 platform. Its raining its arse off at the moment, and I don't want to get wet going to the shed. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote: Ultrix not liking the year 2000 means you need to be preposterous, sadly. Slightly related: while poking around in the shed looking for a spare kettle lead, I found a shrink-wrapped copy of SCO Unix on 5.25" disks and a copy of the "Unix for VMS Users" book. I've moved house 7 times in the last 20 years. Why do i keep this crap? What version of SCO Unix...?

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by neozeed＠gmail.com

you should ebay it, it'll probably fetch 100+ usd. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote: The boxes say SCO Interactive. For the x386 platform. Its raining its arse off at the moment, and I don't want to get wet going to the shed. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote: Ultrix not liking the year 2000 means you need to be preposterous, sadly. Slightly related: while poking around in the shed looking for a spare kettle lead, I found a shrink-wrapped copy of SCO Unix on 5.25" disks and a copy of the "Unix for VMS Users" book. I've moved house 7 times in the last 20 years. Why do i keep this crap? What version of SCO Unix...?

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by tonyblews＠gmail.com

The boxes say SCO Interactive. For the x386 platform. Its raining its arse off at the moment, and I don't want to get wet going to the shed. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote: Ultrix not liking the year 2000 means you need to be preposterous, sadly. Slightly related: while poking around in the shed looking for a spare kettle lead, I found a shrink-wrapped copy of SCO Unix on 5.25" disks and a copy of the "Unix for VMS Users" book. I've moved house 7 times in the last 20 years. Why do i keep this crap? What version of SCO Unix...?

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

On 28.6.2012 13:09, Mark Benson wrote: That's a UNIX tradition I think, lot of UNIXs I have used (IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD to name a few) return the 'preposterous value in Time if Day clock' or similar error if the date wrong. I think it's triggered if the system date is prior to the kernel's date :) DigitalUnix (OSF/1 or Tru64unix; pick your favourite name) does it as well. Kari

12 years, 10 months

"Poor mans routing" and the Italian Hobbyist DECNET

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

On 28.6.2012 23:28, Rok Vidmar wrote: I don't think that will work. How about a bridge translating HECnet's area 1 to an area unused in Italian net and translating Italian area 1 to an unused area in HECnet? -- Regards, Rok . That's exactly what an ATG (Address Translation Gateway) does. Although I haven't used it over TCP/IP (Internet in this case). Maybe it would work if it is configured in either end of a GRE tunnel. Could be worth testing. Kari

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by neozeed＠gmail.com

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote: Ultrix not liking the year 2000 means you need to be preposterous, sadly. Slightly related: while poking around in the shed looking for a spare kettle lead, I found a shrink-wrapped copy of SCO Unix on 5.25" disks and a copy of the "Unix for VMS Users" book. I've moved house 7 times in the last 20 years. Why do i keep this crap? What version of SCO Unix...?

12 years, 10 months

"Poor mans routing" and the Italian Hobbyist DECNET

by rok.vidmar＠gmail.com

I don't think that will work. How about a bridge translating HECnet's area 1 to an area unused in Italian net and translating Italian area 1 to an unused area in HECnet? -- Regards, Rok

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by tonyblews＠gmail.com

?REDO FROM START always annoyed me on the PET. It just made no sense given the context. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Marc Chametzky <marc at bluevine.net> wrote: When I was much younger (back in high school), I used a PDP-11/03 running RSTS and MU-BASIC (v1). It used three character error codes. So, while in BASIC, we typed in: WHAT DID YOU DO LAST SUNDAY? and it responded: ?SYN That was terribly amusing to us teenagers. --Marc

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by marc＠bluevine.net

When I was much younger (back in high school), I used a PDP-11/03 running RSTS and MU-BASIC (v1). It used three character error codes. So, while in BASIC, we typed in: WHAT DID YOU DO LAST SUNDAY? and it responded: ?SYN That was terribly amusing to us teenagers. --Marc

12 years, 10 months

SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2012-06-28 16:48, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: Various operating systems have amusing messages. One of the fun ones in RSTS (unless you got it) was what it would print if the program was killed due to an addressing error or parity error or the like. "Program lost -- sorry" Indeed. There are several in BP2: 25 ?Disk pack needs 'CLEANing' 66 ?Missing special feature 87 ?Expression too complicated 103 ?Program lost-Sorry 108 ?End of statement not seen 109 ?What? 136 ?Illegal or illogical access 174 ?File expiration date unexpired 236 ?TIME limit exceeded 239 ?Arrays must be square Just to pick a few... This one is "classic" in RSX: .err -69 000273 (-69): %I/O-F-IE.NFW, path lost to partner Johnny paul On Jun 28, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Tony Blews wrote: Hi. Has anyone had any success emulating Ultrix with DECnet under SimH? I managed to find a copy of 4.0, and the "tape" claimed that it was installing DECnet, but I couldn't find any evidence of it anywhere on the system. I may just be being stupid (this is not unknown). An aside: You've got to love an OS that gives you error messages containing the word "preposterous"! Tony. -- 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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