On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I've got a Windows NT 4.0 VM up occasionally too..
Sampsa
boy that gives me bad memories of long days ... perhaps you should've gone for NT 3.50 while you were at it... I do have a Win 3.11 box running... perhaps there's a decnet stack for it?!!?
On 06/06/2012 09:59 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
Most any Cisco router will do the trick, but the oldest you'd probably
want to use for something like this would be a 2500 series. They can be
had all day long for $10-20/ea, they pull very little power, and their
software is...erm, "available" if you know what I mean.
Just picked up a Catalyst 4948 (probably a bit overkill, but it was
free)... not sure if I have the correct licenses... in any case, if
anyone has a quick bit on setting this up, I, for one, would be
interested...
Um...that's a switch, not a router. I'm almost positive this model
runs IOS, but as far as I'm aware it has no routing capabilities.
But either way, free is good. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Most any Cisco router will do the trick, but the oldest you'd probably
want to use for something like this would be a 2500 series. They can be
had all day long for $10-20/ea, they pull very little power, and their
software is...erm, "available" if you know what I mean.
Just picked up a Catalyst 4948 (probably a bit overkill, but it was free)... not sure if I have the correct licenses... in any case, if anyone has a quick bit on setting this up, I, for one, would be interested...
Johnny,
Sounds fun. Do you have any other systems down here in .au ? If not and
you have some spare time this weekend, I'd love a bit of a hand getting
initially one of my systems online. We have a 3 day weekend/long weekend
so I'll have more time. I'll try building the newer version of the
bridge.c on the SGI, but the old one appears to function. Ports are all
still setup as per instructions.
Al.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 9:01 AM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Size of HECnet
Just some fun details...
As of today, there are 321 nodes in the nodename database.
They are spread out over 16 areas.
We have machines located on (at least) three continents, if I remember
right.
While not online all the time, I think we currently have atleast the
following OSes represented:
RSX
RSTS/E
VMS
Ultrix
Linux
OSF/1
TOPS-10
Tops-20
Windows XP
IOS
If you know of any errors in this information, more fun facts, or
anything else you'd like to share, feel free to do so.
Johnny
[..snip!..]
Besides, anyone who thinks I know how to use VMS is a moron, Im a
total
VMS noob. I know properly 10x about Linux what I do about VMS. That
said
there are plenty areas I've never had to deal with and mounting
without root
privileges is seemingly one of them. Thing is it 'just works' in RSX
and VMS it
'just don't work' in Linux, at least at a prompt using the
conventional tools.
[..snip!..]
Mark: If your that much of a noob.. I have a "Tips" file/page that's a
little less daunting than the VMS-FAQ I used to hand out to people at my
uni computer club when they joined the VMS sig or had no idea. I still
update it from time to time.
http://deviate.fi/~uridium/VMS-TIPS.TXT
Maybe a few nuggets in there.
Al.
On 6/6/2012 8:03 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Built and ran SIMH 3.9
3.8-1 works just fine (it's what i'm running now) and 3.9 runs fine in
my sol11 VM.
Did it have something to do with the networking perhaps, maybe a weird
interaction with the Crossbow subsystem? We already know that part of
that doesn't do things exactly the way we need them to, I wonder if
there are other issues.
No, this is on zaphod which runs horribly old SXCE.
-brian
On 2012-06-07 03:17, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-06-07 03:01, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
pdp11, that's a different story, though I do try to do some more bits from time to time...
You mean the gcc PDP-11 backend? Are you mad? :-)
Johnny
Maybe so, but working on its has been a good learning experience. It actually helped me doing "real work" on gcc.
God. I have never fully understood the internals of gcc. I remember identifying some bugs in it several years ago when it targeted VAX. But I did that by writing code, running it through the compiler and reading the output to identify the problem. Then someone else had to go in there and actually figure out how it managed to get it wrong.
I also helped the guy doing the original PDP-11 backend for gcc, but once more, I understood the PDP-11 side of things, but not much of the gcc internals...
But I have tried. :-)
All respect to you then, Paul.
Johnny
On 06/06/2012 09:01 PM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Strange that gcc has so much trouble for VAX. I thought that had gotten a fair amount of care & feeding lately.
pdp11, that's a different story, though I do try to do some more bits from time to time...
Are you working on that?? I recently ran across this page:
http://www.diane-neisius.de/pdp11/index_E.html
...in which a very enthusiastic person got it running some time ago,
but with some pretty significant restrictions.
I'd truly love to see the PDP-11 GCC back-end be resurrected and made
to be fully functional. It may have a very limited appeal, but I
already use GCC-based cross-compilers for many different architectures
in both my work and recreational activities (both mostly ARM7), and
would love to be able to do some bare-metal PDP-11 work with GCC as well.
If you're working on this, allow me to voice my heartfelt support for
this effort!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-06-07 03:01, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
...
This is also mildly interesting: http://netbsd0.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/retrocomputing-with-vamp-stack-vax.ht…
Always good to see a VAXstation being put to good use.
Strange that gcc has so much trouble for VAX. I thought that had gotten a fair amount of care& feeding lately.
Sad to say, but gcc really stinks... And the amount of time it needs to compile even something trivial is close to eternity. :-(
pdp11, that's a different story, though I do try to do some more bits from time to time...
You mean the gcc PDP-11 backend? Are you mad? :-)
Johnny
Maybe so, but working on its has been a good learning experience. It actually helped me doing "real work" on gcc.
paul
On 6/6/2012 6:13 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
My email client has been slowly squirrelling HECnet emails away in a folder using a rule I set up and then forgot about since I got my shiny new iPad. Is there a cross platform way of achieving uniformity with this kind of thing using gmail hosted mail? Or do I need to configure each client. That'll be a PITA.
You mean sorting things into folders? If so then all you need to do is log into the web client and, uh, let me check. :)
select the message you want to use as a template (like a hecnet mail)
click the More dropdown menu item
choose Filter messages like these
You should be able to figure it out from there. :)
-brian