We were using FALKEN but the hardware died a sudden death a while back... WOPR is a game machine, but vax... if i recall, you wanted to keep it on AXP!?!
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
UK, London specifically.
Last year we came across the same issue, I believe WOPR (?) was setup to run a US version of the software..
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +44 7961 149465
On 20 Dec 2013, at 21:19, Joshua Benedetto <dasbooterror at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My buddy who was playing under 'Budster' was going well, but the lag was simply too much to deal with from the US. Where is CHIMPY at these days?
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
> ELEVEN DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DEADLINE!
>
> The CHIMPY:: 2013 Retro VT100 Challenge closes at 23:59 GMT on 31-DEC-2013.
>
> At the moment, the leaders are (only the top two players are awarded):
>
> 1. Mark Holmes with a score of 9,816
> 2. Mark Wickens with a score of 7,640
>
> Unfortunately the mystery player vola1 disappeared with his score of over 11,000 - make sure you screen shot your result when entering you name into the leaderboard, and send it to me.
>
> Come on guys, let's get over 10K this year as well, SET HOST to CHIMPY and log in as TETRIS...
>
> sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
> mobile +44 7961 149465
>
>
Hello!
That does make things difficult.
So what are you going to do? I don't think XXDP can remotely manage
the system wired next to it.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Cory Smelosky wrote:
Evening,
If I misunderstood your question (you did mention a MVIII in
the Subject), then please clarify.
I can't get the 11/23+ (or the RX50 for that matter...) to work, so I can
only use the KA650.
Jerome Fine
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Cory Smelosky wrote:
Evening,
If I misunderstood your question (you did mention a MVIII in
the Subject), then please clarify.
I can't get the 11/23+ (or the RX50 for that matter...) to work, so I can
only use the KA650.
Jerome Fine
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
Cory if they do not, then I can aim two copies your way. Big problem
will be making the right arrangements to send them to you.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
Cory Smelosky wrote:
Evening,
Anyone have a copy of an image? I can't find an image with a quick google
and I lack a tape drive so I'll need to do a bit of hackey stuff to boot it
anyway.
I need it in order to format an ST-251 as I can't get my damn 11/23+
working.
XXDP uses ZRQC?? to format an RD31 (ST-251? - right
now I can't remember) for the RQDX3 controller. I assume
that since you are using a PDP-11/23+, you are on a Qbus
system, probably a BA23 and you also have an RX50.
bitsavers should have all the XXDP images. If you can't find
them there, lets us know and I am confident that someone
can help. Your can use PUTR from John Wilson to copy
the RX50 image to a 5 1/4" on a PC using a HD floppy drive.
Don't forget to use 360K DSDD 5 1/4" media, NOT 1.2M
HD 5 1/4" media.
If I misunderstood your question (you did mention a MVIII in
the Subject), then please clarify.
Jerome Fine
>Cory Smelosky wrote:
Evening,
Anyone have a copy of an image? I can't find an image with a quick google and I lack a tape drive so I'll need to do a bit of hackey stuff to boot it anyway.
I need it in order to format an ST-251 as I can't get my damn 11/23+ working.
XXDP uses ZRQC?? to format an RD31 (ST-251? - right
now I can't remember) for the RQDX3 controller. I assume
that since you are using a PDP-11/23+, you are on a Qbus
system, probably a BA23 and you also have an RX50.
bitsavers should have all the XXDP images. If you can't find
them there, lets us know and I am confident that someone
can help. Your can use PUTR from John Wilson to copy
the RX50 image to a 5 1/4" on a PC using a HD floppy drive.
Don't forget to use 360K DSDD 5 1/4" media, NOT 1.2M
HD 5 1/4" media.
If I misunderstood your question (you did mention a MVIII in
the Subject), then please clarify.
Jerome Fine
Evening,
Anyone have a copy of an image? I can't find an image with a quick google
and I lack a tape drive so I'll need to do a bit of hackey stuff to boot
it anyway.
I need it in order to format an ST-251 as I can't get my damn 11/23+
working.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 2013-12-20 00:35, Clem Cole wrote:
I remember having this discussion about 30 years ago with a couple of
the VMS implementors. Im not going to argue with you - other thanks to
say - at the end of the day we decided just what I said -- there are
pros/cons to each solution - you pointed out some of the pros for logicals.
It's an endless discussion, and one I hoped we would not need to have once more. It's pretty pointless. I can't do with environment variables what I'm now doing with logical names for my resolver in RSX.
It's sad (and boring) when people try to convince me that I'm wrong. I know very well how it all works.
As for a universal resolver vs having each client do a lot of work in
the library, that was and is an implementation choice - left over from
how it was the original DNS was implemented (at Berkeley on the VAX at
the time). It is interesting that the UNIX idea of a small program was
sort of lost by many of my brethren at UCB when large address spaces
showed up.
I suspect that if the DNS had been written for PDP-11 UNIX it might have
been a separate process.
At which point, environment variables would not have been possible anyway, since they are always local to the process.
The fact that the resolver works the way it do is indeed just a choice, but I can't see what other choice that would have made sense in that world. Doing it in a separate process is what the DNS server gives you. So it's not that this has not been done. It's just a question of what makes sense and is convenient.
Johnny
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
Hi.
On 2013-12-20 00:07, Clem Cole wrote:
logical names have a unix equiv. in environment variables.
Sortof, but not completely.
there are some differences and advantages to both but the idea
and practice ends up being the same IMO
I disagree.
what you are doing in resolve$foo could just as easily be put in
the environment and get the same result
No. Because I have (obviously) system wide logical names, which
provides the system defaults for this. Any user defined logical
names will override the system ones.
This concept of having logical names on several levels (system,
group, login, session, task) do not have an equivalent form in Unix.
There are more aspects of environment variables that differs from
logical names as well. Which also is a part of the reason you don't
use environment variables for some things, and instead do have the
small text files. (And I love small text files, by the way, so don't
misunderstand me.) It's just that in some situations, other
solutions can give a different bias, which might make some things
easier.
that said you are correct that unix often used small txt files
for some set up and configuration but some programs used the env
too. truth is sna files were used in some of the dec OSes too -
it was just a matter of taste.
I don't think one is better than the other -- I do think when in
Rome I would want to use the scheme that is the operational
standard under the least astonishment principle
I'm not even going to get into an argument about which is better, or
which thing was done in different places. That is a totally
different question.
Both ways work, they provide different pros and cons.
I just totally love the solution I have come up with for name
resolving in RSX, which allows me to easily solve some details which
I have found very hard to do in a simple, clean and nice way with
the resolver solution that exists under Unix.
Johnny
Clem
On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
On 2013-12-19 21:07, John Wilson wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se>>
To get more on topic - I'm working on a name
resolver for RSX right now.
It's a totally awesome thing, and I only wish Unix
(or even VMS) had
something similar.
Me too! Port?
To Unix? Not likely. Logical names just don't have a good
equivalent. The Unix way is text files with configurations
instead. But the form of that is already established, with
the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/hosts)
files. Hard to change, and those do unfortunately not easily
allow user overrides at any level.
(Now I just need to finish the DNS part of it.)
Details. Sounds like good engineering so far. Nice going!
Yeah. The DNS part is not really difficult. It's just a
question of setting up and sending out UDP packets, and then
parsing the responses. Although I must admit that DNS have
some bits that I'm not too happy about.
Working on building the DNS query right now. That is
actually really simple. Doing the parsing will probably take
a few days of work.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> ||
Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" -
B. Idol
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> ||
Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
--
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
I remember having this discussion about 30 years ago with a couple of the VMS implementors. Im not going to argue with you - other thanks to say - at the end of the day we decided just what I said -- there are pros/cons to each solution - you pointed out some of the pros for logicals.
But reality is that what people use them for is pretty much the same and from a programmer stand point - about the same amount of work to get the values.
I point out - that Cutler added to winders whatever he needed from VMS that did not really support. He used env's since thats what they had -- they could have added them if they had wanted too. But in fact what they already had a solution - yup it came from C and UNIX but it was good enough.
As I said - its really an issue what is native for each system -- you should use that solution of you can. I do not fault you for using logicals for a tool targeted to a RSX or VMS. I'm just not going to grant that they really all that different.
As for a universal resolver vs having each client do a lot of work in the library, that was and is an implementation choice - left over from how it was the original DNS was implemented (at Berkeley on the VAX at the time). It is interesting that the UNIX idea of a small program was sort of lost by many of my brethren at UCB when large address spaces showed up.
I suspect that if the DNS had been written for PDP-11 UNIX it might have been a separate process.
Clem
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
Hi.
On 2013-12-20 00:07, Clem Cole wrote:
logical names have a unix equiv. in environment variables.
Sortof, but not completely.
there are some differences and advantages to both but the idea and practice ends up being the same IMO
I disagree.
what you are doing in resolve$foo could just as easily be put in the environment and get the same result
No. Because I have (obviously) system wide logical names, which provides the system defaults for this. Any user defined logical names will override the system ones.
This concept of having logical names on several levels (system, group, login, session, task) do not have an equivalent form in Unix.
There are more aspects of environment variables that differs from logical names as well. Which also is a part of the reason you don't use environment variables for some things, and instead do have the small text files. (And I love small text files, by the way, so don't misunderstand me.) It's just that in some situations, other solutions can give a different bias, which might make some things easier.
that said you are correct that unix often used small txt files for some set up and configuration but some programs used the env too. truth is sna files were used in some of the dec OSes too - it was just a matter of taste.
I don't think one is better than the other -- I do think when in Rome I would want to use the scheme that is the operational standard under the least astonishment principle
I'm not even going to get into an argument about which is better, or which thing was done in different places. That is a totally different question.
Both ways work, they provide different pros and cons.
I just totally love the solution I have come up with for name resolving in RSX, which allows me to easily solve some details which I have found very hard to do in a simple, clean and nice way with the resolver solution that exists under Unix.
Johnny
Clem
On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-12-19 21:07, John Wilson wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
To get more on topic - I'm working on a name resolver for RSX right now.
It's a totally awesome thing, and I only wish Unix (or even VMS) had
something similar.
Me too! Port?
To Unix? Not likely. Logical names just don't have a good equivalent. The Unix way is text files with configurations instead. But the form of that is already established, with the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/hosts) files. Hard to change, and those do unfortunately not easily allow user overrides at any level.
(Now I just need to finish the DNS part of it.)
Details. Sounds like good engineering so far. Nice going!
Yeah. The DNS part is not really difficult. It's just a question of setting up and sending out UDP packets, and then parsing the responses. Although I must admit that DNS have some bits that I'm not too happy about.
Working on building the DNS query right now. That is actually really simple. Doing the parsing will probably take a few days of work.
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
--
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
By the way - to expand a little on why this will not be easily doable under Unix:
Name resolution in RSX is done by one task, and not separately by each task. This is an important feature, as the resolver cache will be able to be shared by all programs on the system. In Unix, each program does name resolution individually, and any data extracted is only available cached by that process. To get around this in Unix, you need to run a local domain name server, which you go though, and which cache things.
However, if you run a local domain name server, that process obviously will *not* be able to access your environment variables.
So the whole thing just will not allow itself to be done easily.
Under RSX, moving a program over to run as a specific user on a specific terminal is actually supported, and when this happens, you also gets the same logical name hierarchy as anything else running on that terminal. So there it do work, and I don't even need to run a full DNS server, as I can let this be done as a part of just the resolver side.
Johnny
On 2013-12-20 00:18, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hi.
On 2013-12-20 00:07, Clem Cole wrote:
logical names have a unix equiv. in environment variables.
Sortof, but not completely.
there are some differences and advantages to both but the idea and
practice ends up being the same IMO
I disagree.
what you are doing in resolve$foo could just as easily be put in the
environment and get the same result
No. Because I have (obviously) system wide logical names, which provides
the system defaults for this. Any user defined logical names will
override the system ones.
This concept of having logical names on several levels (system, group,
login, session, task) do not have an equivalent form in Unix.
There are more aspects of environment variables that differs from
logical names as well. Which also is a part of the reason you don't use
environment variables for some things, and instead do have the small
text files. (And I love small text files, by the way, so don't
misunderstand me.) It's just that in some situations, other solutions
can give a different bias, which might make some things easier.
that said you are correct that unix often used small txt files for
some set up and configuration but some programs used the env too.
truth is sna files were used in some of the dec OSes too - it was
just a matter of taste.
I don't think one is better than the other -- I do think when in Rome
I would want to use the scheme that is the operational standard under
the least astonishment principle
I'm not even going to get into an argument about which is better, or
which thing was done in different places. That is a totally different
question.
Both ways work, they provide different pros and cons.
I just totally love the solution I have come up with for name resolving
in RSX, which allows me to easily solve some details which I have found
very hard to do in a simple, clean and nice way with the resolver
solution that exists under Unix.
Johnny
Clem
On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-12-19 21:07, John Wilson wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
To get more on topic - I'm working on a name resolver for RSX right
now.
It's a totally awesome thing, and I only wish Unix (or even VMS) had
something similar.
Me too! Port?
To Unix? Not likely. Logical names just don't have a good equivalent.
The Unix way is text files with configurations instead. But the form
of that is already established, with the /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/hosts) files. Hard to change, and those
do unfortunately not easily allow user overrides at any level.
(Now I just need to finish the DNS part of it.)
Details. Sounds like good engineering so far. Nice going!
Yeah. The DNS part is not really difficult. It's just a question of
setting up and sending out UDP packets, and then parsing the
responses. Although I must admit that DNS have some bits that I'm not
too happy about.
Working on building the DNS query right now. That is actually really
simple. Doing the parsing will probably take a few days of work.
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
--
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
Hi.
On 2013-12-20 00:07, Clem Cole wrote:
logical names have a unix equiv. in environment variables.
Sortof, but not completely.
there are some differences and advantages to both but the idea and practice ends up being the same IMO
I disagree.
what you are doing in resolve$foo could just as easily be put in the environment and get the same result
No. Because I have (obviously) system wide logical names, which provides the system defaults for this. Any user defined logical names will override the system ones.
This concept of having logical names on several levels (system, group, login, session, task) do not have an equivalent form in Unix.
There are more aspects of environment variables that differs from logical names as well. Which also is a part of the reason you don't use environment variables for some things, and instead do have the small text files. (And I love small text files, by the way, so don't misunderstand me.) It's just that in some situations, other solutions can give a different bias, which might make some things easier.
that said you are correct that unix often used small txt files for some set up and configuration but some programs used the env too. truth is sna files were used in some of the dec OSes too - it was just a matter of taste.
I don't think one is better than the other -- I do think when in Rome I would want to use the scheme that is the operational standard under the least astonishment principle
I'm not even going to get into an argument about which is better, or which thing was done in different places. That is a totally different question.
Both ways work, they provide different pros and cons.
I just totally love the solution I have come up with for name resolving in RSX, which allows me to easily solve some details which I have found very hard to do in a simple, clean and nice way with the resolver solution that exists under Unix.
Johnny
Clem
On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-12-19 21:07, John Wilson wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
To get more on topic - I'm working on a name resolver for RSX right now.
It's a totally awesome thing, and I only wish Unix (or even VMS) had
something similar.
Me too! Port?
To Unix? Not likely. Logical names just don't have a good equivalent. The Unix way is text files with configurations instead. But the form of that is already established, with the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/hosts) files. Hard to change, and those do unfortunately not easily allow user overrides at any level.
(Now I just need to finish the DNS part of it.)
Details. Sounds like good engineering so far. Nice going!
Yeah. The DNS part is not really difficult. It's just a question of setting up and sending out UDP packets, and then parsing the responses. Although I must admit that DNS have some bits that I'm not too happy about.
Working on building the DNS query right now. That is actually really simple. Doing the parsing will probably take a few days of work.
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
--
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
