Sampsa Laine skrev:
Then again, if we find nothing, it could be an amusing project of course, writing a BBS package in PL/I or Cobol or something...
Speaking of which.
Are people doing any fun projects nowadays?
Me, I'm currently playing aorund with three bigger things on RSX, apart from all the small stuff.
o Writing a TCP/IP implementation.
ARP, IP, ICMP and UDP are done. TCP is halfway, and I'm still fooling around
with different tricks and ideas on how to do this best. I've also written a
few clients and servers that talk UDP, just for the fun of it.
(This is actually my forth implementation, but you learn things at every
iteration. :-) )
o Writing a CONQUEST lookalike
CONQUEST is a game under VMS that I remember fondly from the 80s. I recently
hunted down the VMS implementation, and peeked under the hood, and then
started implementing it from scratch for RSX. Original is written in RATFOR,
but I'm doing one in C.
Universe works, planets and ships move around. Players can talk with each
other and check out things. Screen handling and so on is done. I'm currently
at the point where I should start implementing the shooting of each other,
but it's in a hiatus because of lack of time. :-)
o Setting up a really good web resource for RSX.
I want to collect all the information and software that I have in a nice,
organized manner for everyone to access. I have patches for the kernel,
DECnet, and god knows how many tools. To fix bugs, give enhancements and
new features. But much of this is probably totally unknown to others,
but would be very useful for people who still use RSX to have. I have
started on a prototype, using Drupal, but haven't gotten far yet.
Once more a problem with time.
And then of course, I have lots of smaller software projects in RSX that work, but which I occasionally bugfix or improve when someone comes with comments, or I'm bored.
So what are other people doing around here? :-)
(And yes, I also have both VAXen and Alphas running VMS at home, but almost all my time, I sit by the PDP-11 anyway.)
Johnny
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On Sun, 2008-10-05 22:33:10 Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 6 Oct 2008, at 02:07, Fred wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS
program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it
was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I
would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur
radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does
anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
So, weren't BBS's mostly text-based communications fora accessed
via direct dial-up to a modem bank attached to the BBS host? and
haven't those mostly these days been superseded by Wikis that are
accessed over TCP/IP typically via http? Or is it your goal to
gateway AX.25/TNC protocols over to HECnet? Now that would be new.
I can see it now, HECnet links over AX.25 radio links.
I can see it now, AX.25 links over HECnet internets.
An Alpha running VMS as a TNC BBS? Dude! You'd be the envy of all
your ham buddies! Go for it!
Aloha, Angela
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That DOES sound interesting. I've done a spot of Googling and haven't found anything like that, I suppose best place to ask would be comp.os.vms.
Then again, if we find nothing, it could be an amusing project of course, writing a BBS package in PL/I or Cobol or something...
Sampsa
On 6 Oct 2008, at 02:07, Fred wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does anyone know or has ever seen such an animal?
Fred
Hi everyone. I have now got a machine back on line (51.1) Petey.
All my machines have been in storeage for over a year now. Only one
machine started up when I set them up. One of the 4000/90's refuses to
do anything at all. The Alpha was ok after removing all the boards and
resitting them.
Has anyone come across any interesting Vax or Alpha programs in the
last year I may of missed ?.
What machines on the network have remote access and fun things to
play with online at the moment ?
Dan
... Just a fun note; when I did POS (packet_over_sonet) that most high_speed internet links
10G and 40Gbit is using today, I basically copied DDCMP minus the
retransmission of broken packets part. It's byte_syncrounous.. -:) (As
we could not fit the HDLC bit_stuffing in the FPGA of 1995 at OC3/STM1
(155Mbit) speed.)
-P
H lscher wrote:
Hi,
what is the status of DDCMP within Linux-DECnet?
I did start a hacked version a long time ago but it's quite far from
being a working piece of software. This was wholly in userspace because
it made life easier for me. To do it 'properly' it should be implemented
as a line discipline in the kernel but that looked like far too much
hard work!
I would be happy to post what I have if anyone wants to work on
finishing it. But it's probably easier to just follow the specification
and start it again that work on someone else's unfinished code. As Paul
said, the specification is very clear. Surprisingly ;)
Chrissie
I started on that long ago; didn't get very far. (I have sample code but unfortunately it's in Macro-11 and interfaces to a RSTS terminal driver rather than the Linux line discipline stuff.)
It isn't hard, actually. You can take the DDCMP specification and just implement what it says; the spec is good enough that doing so will result in a correct implementation.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of H lscher
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:05 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] DDCMP status
Hi,
what is the status of DDCMP within Linux-DECnet?
Is there any chance that it gets finished (or at least started) in the near future?
Regards,
Ulli
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:50:57 +0100, you wrote:
Yeah, that went really smoothly. Btw, I've got a spare hardware raid
controller I bought off ebay for some random reason.
I'd be willing to trade it for say a SCSI drive with a SCA connector..
Another couple of links for you, the second might be especially interesting:
http://starlet.deltatel.ru/~Laishev/kits/cc073.dcx_axpexehttp://starlet.deltatel.ru/~Laishev/kits/hp-i64vms-c-v0703-018-1.pcsi$compr…
My Itanium friend will be back tomorrow and said that he will tell me/you
which disk+tray model you'll have to look for on ebay for your system. If I
did understand it right, there are many HP disk models suitable for it because
they're the same used by HP for one of their most common storage arrays. The
only nuisance is the colour: white instead of black... Will you bare that? :-P
Unfortunately he hasn't any spare SCA disk to exchange. Speaking about the
RAID controller: when back at home he'll check if it is a model he is
interested in, then maybe he'll contact you directly to ask if you will sell
it for money or to find something interesting for you to make a deal.
BTW, where are you located? London?
G.
P.S.: Is my English understandable? I'm constantly trying to improve it and to
write as correctly as I can, but sometimes I feel very bad at writing... :-)
