Guys,
Being that my Mini is starting to show its age, I figured I'd move GORVAX onto something more modern.
Unfortunately that means running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - which means the networking went to shit.
Anyone got a copy of the SIMH VAX binary to run properly on 10.6?
Sampsa
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Mark Benson wrote:
I'll certainly give it a good poking once it's up.
Do you know what language it's scripted in? I'd be interested in further
developing it if I know the language as it's something STAR69 (my VAX
emulator) might come in handy for.
I am not sure what it is written in, but from the documentation I read, I am thinking C of some variant since it lists a C compiler as a requirement. I have to pull some header files from the NOTES distribution as well pull in some pieces from the OSU web server, so while it does not seem difficult, it will take a bit of time and planning.
Once I have something to test I'll email the list. NOTES is still running on MISER:: if folks with character-cell (or X) clients would like to connect.
Fred
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Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use in a
polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they
prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.
As soon as I have time, I'll install it on MISER:: if possible, as I already run Apache on this machine anyway ... It may be even as soon as tonight, Thursday. Once something is running I'll post to the list to see if everyone would like to start "testing". :)
I'll certainly give it a good poking once it's up.
Do you know what language it's scripted in? I'd be interested in further developing it if I know the language as it's something STAR69 (my VAX emulator) might come in handy for.
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Mark Benson wrote:
On 21 Jul 2011, at 06:26, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I don't believe DEC had anything to do with the version I've used. It's the software used by the Deathrow cluster. Ah, here we go...
http://www.decuserve.org/~burley/
As I'm a DECUServe member I had a look around on their demo if it running on EISNER:: and it seems to work pretty well. I say someone gives it a go on an isolated non-critical NOTES system to see how it goes, we can all drop by and try to break it ;)
As soon as I have time, I'll install it on MISER:: if possible, as I already run Apache on this machine anyway ... It may be even as soon as tonight, Thursday. Once something is running I'll post to the list to see if everyone would like to start "testing". :)
Fred
On 21 Jul 2011, at 06:26, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I don't believe DEC had anything to do with the version I've used. It's the software used by the Deathrow cluster. Ah, here we go...
http://www.decuserve.org/~burley/
As I'm a DECUServe member I had a look around on their demo if it running on EISNER:: and it seems to work pretty well. I say someone gives it a go on an isolated non-critical NOTES system to see how it goes, we can all drop by and try to break it ;)
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"Never send a human to do a machine's job..."
I don't believe DEC had anything to do with the version I've used. It's the software used by the Deathrow cluster. Ah, here we go...
http://www.decuserve.org/~burley/
Zane
At 7:19 AM +0300 7/21/11, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
Zane,
do you have a kit or a pointer to where to find the web interface? I wasn't aware of that there was a public version of it. I have always thought it was DEC internal only.
Kari
On 21.7.2011 6:25, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Keep in mind there is the web interface for NOTES. I want to say I had
it running on MONK, unfortunately MONK hasn't been up in a long time as
I can't afford the electricity and cooling. :-(
Zane
At 10:55 AM -0400 7/20/11, Fred wrote:
Hi all
Now that I've got my mail issues squared away, I did want to note (ha)
that if anyone wants to carry on off-topic stuff in a NOTES fashion,
feel free to add MISER::HECNET_OFF to your notebook.
A list->notes gateway I would need help with, although I would think a
gateway would not be needed since the point is to move certain
discussions off-list.
Regardless, it's there if folks want to use it. MISER:: is up 24/7
barring hardware problems or if the power goes out and I'm not around
to fire up the generator before the batteries give out.
Cheers,
Fred
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| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Photographer |
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| My flickr Photostream |
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Zane,
do you have a kit or a pointer to where to find the web interface? I wasn't aware of that there was a public version of it. I have always thought it was DEC internal only.
Kari
On 21.7.2011 6:25, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Keep in mind there is the web interface for NOTES. I want to say I had
it running on MONK, unfortunately MONK hasn't been up in a long time as
I can't afford the electricity and cooling. :-(
Zane
At 10:55 AM -0400 7/20/11, Fred wrote:
Hi all
Now that I've got my mail issues squared away, I did want to note (ha)
that if anyone wants to carry on off-topic stuff in a NOTES fashion,
feel free to add MISER::HECNET_OFF to your notebook.
A list->notes gateway I would need help with, although I would think a
gateway would not be needed since the point is to move certain
discussions off-list.
Regardless, it's there if folks want to use it. MISER:: is up 24/7
barring hardware problems or if the power goes out and I'm not around
to fire up the generator before the batteries give out.
Cheers,
Fred
Keep in mind there is the web interface for NOTES. I want to say I had it running on MONK, unfortunately MONK hasn't been up in a long time as I can't afford the electricity and cooling. :-(
Zane
At 10:55 AM -0400 7/20/11, Fred wrote:
Hi all
Now that I've got my mail issues squared away, I did want to note (ha) that if anyone wants to carry on off-topic stuff in a NOTES fashion, feel free to add MISER::HECNET_OFF to your notebook.
A list->notes gateway I would need help with, although I would think a gateway would not be needed since the point is to move certain discussions off-list.
Regardless, it's there if folks want to use it. MISER:: is up 24/7 barring hardware problems or if the power goes out and I'm not around to fire up the generator before the batteries give out.
Cheers,
Fred
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Photographer |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| My flickr Photostream |
| http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |
Hi all
Now that I've got my mail issues squared away, I did want to note (ha) that if anyone wants to carry on off-topic stuff in a NOTES fashion, feel free to add MISER::HECNET_OFF to your notebook.
A list->notes gateway I would need help with, although I would think a gateway would not be needed since the point is to move certain discussions off-list.
Regardless, it's there if folks want to use it. MISER:: is up 24/7 barring hardware problems or if the power goes out and I'm not around to fire up the generator before the batteries give out.
Cheers,
Fred
----
Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use in a
polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they
prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.
There is ANF10 code for PDP11 that run on 40's or 34's.
Ah. I thought the DN92 was somehow related to ANF10.
Did ever anything but TOPS-10 support ANF10?
(Whatever code ran on the FE RSX system don't count... :) )
There are three DEC things that run on the FE PDP11:
rsx20f is the stuff that controls the KL and loads microcode
and acts as the connection for local terminal links.
(remember the dte is capable of 50kbit/s total...)
mcb rsx based decnet phase 3 frontend, while the host was
phase 4.. abortion.. that's why we did the DDP
devices..
anf10 Frontend code, don't use a OS, has a small kernel by
itself.
You could not mix this, so your minimum was 2 PDP11's and one is in
the main CPU.
Then there is MinITS for the frontend of MC KL10A and DL10
The PDP11 code can talk DDCMP over ASYNC or SYNC interfaces, DQ11,
DMR11, DMC11. So you can do Wan things. In Sweden we had DEC10's in
Stockholm and Linkoping networked with a 9.6K sync link.
The DEC2020 talks DDCP with a DUP11 and a KMC (I think it was KMC,
unibus card with microdode that basically did DDCMP.)
Yeah, I seem to remember that the KMC was the card with DDCMP on board.
Anf-10 has link-state routing like OSPF/ISIS but only one area.
I was very ignorant at the time I played with this stuff. Exactly what
could you do over ANF10? I remember connecting between machines
(interactive terminal sessions), but were there file transfer protocols,
or network based filesystems? Other features?
It depends..
There where sockets/services, but different nodes supports
different things. A shell is a socket/service only on the
mainframes and the X29/X25 gateway.
MCR shell
TSK process-process (file access is on top of this)
LPT line printer
CDR card reader
CDP card punch
TTY terminal line (very advanced "Telnet")
DDP tunnel used to carry IP and DECnet to front-end
PLT plotter
RDX remote data entry terminal
in netdev.mac...
TITLE NETCDR - NETWORK CARD READER ROUTINES - V001
TITLE NETDDP - NETWORK "DDCMP" DEVICE SERVICE ROUTINES - V001
TITLE NETLPT - NETWORK LINE PRINTER ROUTINES - V001
TITLE NETMCR - NETWORK MONITOR CONTROL ROUTINES VERSION 001
TITLE NETPLT - NETWORK PLOTTER ROUTINES - V001
TITLE NETRDX - REMOTE DATA ENTRY SERVICE ROUTINE TO SUPPORT MCS10 - V001
TITLE NETTSK - TASK TO TASK COMMUNICATION SERVICE ROUTINE - V001
TITLE NETVTM - VIRTUAL TERMINAL ROUTINES VERSION 001
-P
