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by Keith Halewood

Hi, Apologies if I caused some bounces or timeouts with messages. Cassini.dfupdate.se is in the 'Hetzner' 65.108.0.0/15 subnet. Seemingly large swathes of that part of the Internet have a very low reputation in terms of port scanners, spammers, brute force attackers, sources of DOS attacks etc.. I've made exceptions. Keith

4 years, 1 month

How long has your 20 been up?

by tommytimesharing＠gmail.com

Check it out: @_uptiME.EXE.2_ TOMMYT up for 1 Year, 2 Days, 16 Hours, 36 Minutes, 26 Seconds and 582 Milliseconds @_timET2.EXE.4 _ Tops-20 was booted on Saturday, January 16, 2021 8:46:38PM-EST. It will crash with an UP2LNG BUGHLT on Friday, February 18, 2022 1:08:57PM-EST. @ UPTIME and TIMET2 are two programs that I wrote several years; ago, UPTIME in 2017 and TIMET2 in 2006.? I wrote them because I found the hours format given by SYSTAT SYSTEM and INFORMATION MONITOR-STATISTICS to be a little opaque and they didn't have the information I wanted, viz: @_sysTAT sySTEM_ ?Tue 18-Jan-2022 13:28:45? Up *8800:42:07!!!!!!!!* ?4+7 Jobs?? Load av?? 0.01?? 0.02?? 0.02 ?No operator in attendance @_iNFORMATION (ABOUT) monITOR-STATISTICS_ ?Up *8800:42:10!!!!!!!!* ?Idle 99%? Waiting 0%? Sched ovh 0%? Pager traps 0% ?Swap reads 28049 Writes 385176? File reads 4643699 Writes 3677925 ?8092 Pages of user memory ?4259771001 Term wakeups? 1255 Term interrupts ?NBAL av?? 0.32? NRUN av?? 0.02 ?Runtime of jobs on sched queues 0-6 (sec) ?? ?143964??? 16409??? 14494??? 1012??? 1756 4846??? 4215 @ I wrote TIMET2 because I needed to know when to set a shutdown. If you don't do that and you hit the uptime limit, then the machine simple crashes with an UP2LNG BUGHLT. This happens because the uptime millisecond counter is a signed 36 bit integer, which will roll over and become negative after 1 Year, 4 Weeks, 5 Days, 16 Hours, 22 Minutes, 18 Seconds and 367 Milliseconds.? You would think the code would self-set a 'graceful' shutdown, but it doesn't...? Maybe I'll do that one of these days; it's easy enough. Since the PDP-10 does not have unsigned compares, fixing this would involve changing a rather large number of comparisons. Assuming you kept the storage at a single word, going unsigned would get you out to 2 Years, 9 Weeks, 4 Days, 8 Hours, 44 Minutes, 36 Seconds and 735 Milliseconds.? That's probably still not that great given today's hardware. Going to an unsigned double word format would obviously get you a far larger uptime.? However, the current arithmetic that I use can 'only'? handle a maximum uptime of 34,359,738,367,999 of milliseconds.? This works out to be 1092 Years, 27 Weeks, 5 Days, 3 Hours, 46 Minutes, 7 Seconds and 999 Milliseconds.? Since the time of day counter expires in 7-Aug-2576 7:59:59 PM EDT, I used a faster instruction...? Otherwise, going over a millennium between reboots seemed reasonable unless you find yourself in a significantly sub-luminal spacecraft going someplace inter-galactic... I know that XKL fixed at least part of the uptime problem, but I don't remember what that limit is.? What are the limits for other systems?

4 years, 2 months

KINET by KI Research - DECnet for numerous Unix flavors and OS/2?

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

It runs on later Windows versions as long as they are 32-bit.Kari -------- Original message -------- From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> Date: 1/16/22 02:54 (GMT+02:00) To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] KINET by KI Research - DECnet for numerous Unix flavors           and OS/2? On 2022-01-15 20:03, Thomas DeBellis wrote:> That jogs a memory about a question I had; I don't suppose there's > anything for Windows 7, 10 or Mac OS X?Have anyone tried DEC Pathworks on newer windows? I have it running on XP.?? Johnny> > On 1/13/22 12:20 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:>> On 1/13/22 5:07 AM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:>>>> Now, that name sounds very familiar! That might have been who I was >>>> talking to.>>>>>> He responded? saying the KiNET build-tree supports 55 vendor >>> platforms and he will look at what needs to be done to make the build >>> tree available.>>>>>> Probably similar response received by Tim.>>>>>> Let?s wait.>>>> ? Thanks for pursuing this.? This is very exciting!>>>> ???????? -Dave>>-- Johnny Billquist????????????????? || "I'm on a bus?????????????????????????????????? ||? on a psychedelic tripemail: bqt at softjar.se???????????? ||? Reading murder bookspdp is alive!???????????????????? ||? tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

4 years, 2 months

KINET by KI Research - DECnet for numerous Unix flavors and OS/2?

by supratim＠riseup.net

Once upon a time there seems to have been a company called KI Research at Columbia, Maryland. Circa 1994 they had for sale something called KINET DNA which apparently was a user-mode DECnet stack available for numerous Unix flavors and OS/2 (maybe more operating systems). I came across the name looking for a DECnet implementation for HP-UX. Here's one of the threads from 1993 (!) that I am looking at: http://www.verycomputer.com/30_4d016ca71ca3072b_1.htm Does anyone here have pointers to some archive which might have distributions of KINET? Thanks Supratim

4 years, 2 months

Announcing TCP/IP V2.9 for RSX-11M-PLUS

by bqt＠softjar.se

Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This is version 2.9 of BQTCP/IP. It's been three weeks since the last official update, which is rather short. But there are two significant things that been solved since the last release, which is motivation for a release so shortly after the previous one. Highlights: . Bugfix in name resolved that could cause system crashes under some conditions. . Improvements to DECnet performance. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: TCP: . Improved the handling when both sides sends FIN at the same time. DNS: . Bugfix in resolver. Under the wrong conditions, the system could crash. It was a combination of failing DNS, short timeouts on the query itself, and a race condition in the code in this case. So the chances of hitting it were extremely low, but it can happen. MAIL: . Improve handling of hosts with no reverse dns, or giving fake information or trying to do weird commands. Such hosts are not blocked anymore, but are tracked, and only mails to postmaster from such hosts are accepted (this is more in accordance with the relevant RFCs). . Added postmaster sending a warning mail when mail delivery isn't immediately successful, to make people aware that there might be problems. . Improved mail queue processing, making the mail queue not be locked for longer periods. TELNETD: . Improved connection tracking. FTPD: . Add logging of whether transfers completed successfully or not in logs. IPC library: . Bugfix. The _notify() function didn't work right. RSX: . Added patched ECL module for DECnet to improve performance. Some additional notes: As usual, I would recommend people to update as soon as possible. The changes are not critical, but will lead to a much better experience, and might avoid system crashes in rare circumstances. The patches to the TT: driver cannot be applied automatically, but requires users to apply the patches themselves, and then run SYSGEN to generate a new system. Once added, the TNC2 task can be run at login, and will define logical names for the user telling where he is connected from, if using telnet. The TT: driver patches also allows the updated MCR to give more information with the DEV command (SHOW TERMINAL in DCL). The other patches to RSX can be applied automatically by IPGEN, either if used interactively when answering YES to the question about applying RSX patches, or by running IPGEN explicitly to do the patches, with the command: @IPGEN PATCH Specific information about the patches: LAT: Fixes a memory leak, and adds the ability to read where a terminal connection comes from when using LAT, using SF.GMC. RMSDAP: Fixes a bug in getting the file protection, so the XAB gets filled in correctly for remote files. RMSDSP: Fixes that some numbers were displayed in signed octal, which should have been displayed in decimal or unsigned octal, depending on number. DCL: Added terminal attributes for COLOR. MCR: Too many fixes to be listed here... ECL: If the receiving machine is very slow, and the sending machine is very fast, and the receiver announce several large buffers available, ECL cannot keep up, but drops packets. This is sortof a problem with the DECnet flow control, as it is used in RSX. The simple solution is to allow more outstanding buffers when receiving. A more complex solution would be to change how RSX DECnet do flow control, but that would require rewriting a fair chunk of the ECL module. As usual, the distribution is available from: ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap !!! BQTCP is also available through RPM !!! (As an additional note, if there are any problems communicating with Mim using port 21, the ftp service is also available at port 10021) The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. On a final note, Mim have moved. Mim.Update.UU.SE still points to the machine, but the actual name is now Mim.Stupi.NET, and in case Update.UU.SE cease to work at some point, Stupi.NET should still be fine. Johnny -- 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

4 years, 2 months

DDCMP sync line support now in SIMH

by paulkoning＠comcast.net

With help from Mark Pizzolato, I added support to SIMH for my DDCMP sync line interface ("DDCMP framer"). This is a USB device, built around a Raspberry Pico, that implements the lower layers of the DDCMP synchronous line protocol. It allows SIMH (or PyDECnet) to talk to real machines that use those interfaces. My ability to test with real hardware is limited; in particular I don't have any coax cable ("integral modem") devices like the DMC-11/AL. But I did test RS232 mode with my Pro 380. The current SIMH on Github includes the necessary code and documentation to allow the use of this device as an emulated DUP, KMC-DUP, or DMC. The current PyDECnet (on my Subversion server) also supports it, and the two will interoperate as you would expect. The design for the device is open source, it can be found on github: https://github.com/pkoning2/ddcmp . At the moment if you want one of these you'll have to build it; I provide the design files but not boards or devices, and I don't plan to. But of course since it's open others may do so if they wish. I'd be very interested in test results of the coax interface since I could only test that against the device itself and against the documentation. paul

4 years, 2 months

Area weirdness on HECnet

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, Just noticed: ncp tell a1rtr show known circ stat The above shows a circuit ETH-10 adjacent to node 5.1023. It looks like none of the area routers I've looked at actually see the area, ie: a29rt2, a1rtr, python. Needless to say that 5.* is unreachable from my point of view. FYI Keith

4 years, 2 months

So…..

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

So, [Happy new year by the way,] How much of the HECnet just went dark? K

4 years, 2 months

SIMH TOPS-20 question --> recipe for handling Tops20 install tapes --> MTBOOT --> create new PS: structure

by R.Voorhorst＠swabhawat.com

Actually, come to think about it you should be able to create a new PS in 2 phases: 1. boot tape and create a pristine PS: up to and including DLUSER stuff; see installation manual posted earlier. 2. boot another monitor, mount the pristine PS as another structure on it; skip the tape 7 files and use monitor dumper to restore the savesets on the pristine structure. Point to check is if a bootstrap is written to the pristine structure but the installation manual will make that clear. If I have some time I will checkthe problem out if the tape has a problem or not and how to create a structure from it; meanwhile you still cann retrieve files which was your primary requirement I believe. Reindert -----Original Message----- From: Paul Koning [mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, 25 December, 2021 22:24 To: Reindert Voorhorst <R.Voorhorst at swabhawat.com> Cc: <hecnet at update.uu.se> <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Subject: Re: [HECnet] SIMH TOPS-20 question --> recipe for handling Tops20 install tapes --> MTBOOT > On Dec 25, 2021, at 3:21 PM, R. Voorhorst <R.Voorhorst at swabhawat.com> wrote: > > I do not see that problem and I posted it here somewhat earlier: > > Swbx04> att -f tu0 simh > Swbx04> g:\temp\bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap-1 > Swbx04> b tu0 > > And on console: > > MTBOOT> > > The first must be MTBOOT else you cannot load de monitor with /L and ?G143, so no skipping filemarks are needed as the monitor is the first file. > Mark well, it is format simh=tps! So it is, interesting. What's strange is that -f tpc reports success, while -f simh reports an error: After processing 1159680 bytes of tape data (453 records, 5 tapemarks) Read Tape Record Returned Unexpected Status: invalid record length 19827814 bytes of unexamined data remain in the tape image file but indeed in this format I can boot the tape. paul

4 years, 2 months

PSTHRU.EXE poor-man routing object 123 for VMS on VAX

by gerry77＠mail.com

After many months I was able to access again some VAX system where I had stored some interesting bits, and among them the VAX version of PSTHRU.EXE, i.e. the DECnet poor-man routing object for VMS. I do not remember at all where I found it in the first place, and it is nowhere to be found online (there is a namesake file for TOPS-10 though). I could send it to whoever wants it or, if I'm allowed, I could just send it to the mailing list: it's a tiny 6 kB ZIP file with a BACKUP saveset inside. The saveset contains the executable image, its related DCL procedure, and a text file that lists the NCP commands to activate it. The object could generate some optional debug log and apparently (looking at the dump of the executable image) could access some PSTHRU.DAT I don't have any clue about. Also, I wonder if it could be VESTed. It would be nice if it could end up in some repository, at least to avoid losing it again... Let me know, :) G.

4 years, 2 months

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