On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This all looks very Unix-y -
Undoubtably
I think the DECUS UUCP had some changes that made it work in a VMS way..
IIRC, it did. But it's been a long time since I messed with those bits. I hope you find the binaries - did you look on DECUSlib.com?
The important thing that I >>thought<< DECUS did was hook into MAIL-11.
BTW: the BBN "Phone-Net" stuff for CS-NET had similar but different functionality. That ran on VMS and PDP-10's (was written in Pascal IIRC) but used called into the native MTA (I think). It also had something called PDMF which replaced the MTA
This all looks very Unix-y - I think the DECUS UUCP had some changes that made it work in a VMS way..
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On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:25, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This thing came with a grand total of 2 pages of docs. Yay GNU.
http://airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/http://oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch16.html
On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:06, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
What tools do I need to compile the beast, any idea?
A C compiler, but I have not tried it (nor needed UUCP) in years.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This thing came with a grand total of 2 pages of docs. Yay GNU.
http://airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/http://oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch16.html
On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:06, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
> What tools do I need to compile the beast, any idea?
A C compiler, but I have not tried it (nor needed UUCP) in years.
Hello!
He did? Must have done it when I was not there. Good to know. And here
I thought the machine's sole purpose was for traveling.
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Actually Dave that's the machine that the Yetis are using to bring
down China, its been up for the past eighteen months. Oh and please
stop staring at those four vans and one Bentley? That's what they use
for transport, the Bentley belongs to their supporter.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 09/18/2013 10:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
As for more modern stuff, I have a Z-machine emulator, so you can play
pretty much all Infocom games on RSX and RT-11. I don't think it works
on RSTS/E at this point, simply because noone went through the effort to
write the bits to get it working there.
Ethan Dicks ported the Z-machine emulator to RSTS/E two years ago at
VCF-East, on my PDP-11/70. I don't know if the code is anywhere but on
that 11/70's disk packs, but it's safe and sound here. I will be
bringing that machine up more often toward the winter.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 09/18/2013 10:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
As for more modern stuff, I have a Z-machine emulator, so you can play
pretty much all Infocom games on RSX and RT-11. I don't think it works
on RSTS/E at this point, simply because noone went through the effort to
write the bits to get it working there.
Ethan Dicks ported the Z-machine emulator to RSTS/E two years ago at
VCF-East, on my PDP-11/70. I don't know if the code is anywhere but on
that 11/70's disk packs, but it's safe and sound here. I will be
bringing that machine up more often toward the winter.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
This thing came with a grand total of 2 pages of docs. Yay GNU.
Back to the original question though, does anyone know where the DECUS UUCP VAX binaries might be?
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On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:06, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
What tools do I need to compile the beast, any idea?
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On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:02, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
If my memory is correct it's just a port of Taylor UUCP with the configuration set to VMS, check out: http://www.gnu.org/software/uucp/
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Is this still around? I can't seem to find it anywhere..
What tools do I need to compile the beast, any idea?
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +358 40 7208932
On 18 Sep 2013, at 17:02, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
If my memory is correct it's just a port of Taylor UUCP with the configuration set to VMS, check out: http://www.gnu.org/software/uucp/
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Is this still around? I can't seem to find it anywhere..
If my memory is correct it's just a port of Taylor UUCP with the configuration set to VMS, check out: http://www.gnu.org/software/uucp/
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Is this still around? I can't seem to find it anywhere..
Well Burness's moonlander is around (as it Jack):
Source: http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/gt40/software/moonlander/g… <-- original
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/gt40/software/moonlander/r… <-- RT11 port
Here is a cut/pasted from a message from Jack to some of us alumni last winter:
from: Jack Burness
date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:10 AM
subject: Non-Biz: Humor(?) 40th Anniversary of the GT40 Moonlander - And You Can Play It Now......
to: JacksAlumniList
For those that remember Moonlander, the final version was created 40 years ago on February 25, 1973. But thanks to Rick Naro you can play it right now. On your iPad (sorry, it doesn t work on an iPhone).
It is amazingly like the original.
Just download the app Moonlander Classic by Paradigm Systems from the appstore. It s free.
And amidst the credits and faqs there are interesting tidbits of information, including the original source code
On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-09-18 02:07, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Bob how big is the DELNI? And the DECserver-100? I am always
interested in new gear.
Those are both 19 inch rack devices, 2 or 3 U, forgot which. Not very deep, less than 19 inches as I recall.
They can both be rack mounted, but the default for them is to be standalone. But the outer plastic shell can be removed, and brackets attached.
Yes, good point. I should have said that the box is sized to be a natural fit for a 19 inch rack (the brackets are modest size, they don't have to fill a large opening).
They are both pretty light. Mostly air inside.
Indeed. Each is just one modest circuit board and a small power supply. The DECserver-100 prototypes actually used a far smaller box (about the size of an SB-11 box); the larger box came into existence, along with the MMJ connectors, as a result of a Ken Olsen design change. (This is what caused my boss to refer to KO as the "Chief connector architect" -- not something you want to see in someone who's supposed to be the CEO of a large company.)
paul
