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by bob＠jfcl.com

Does anybody have a copy of the DECserver-200 management kit for VMS, v3.0? It d be DS2030.A and DS2030.B. I have the v2.0 kit, but not 3.0. Thanks, Bob

12 years, 9 months

RE: [DECtec] Slight OT: SIMH Framebuffer support

by Mark＠infocomm.com

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Sampsa Laine write: This looks cool, anyone try it? http://www.9track.net/simh/video/ Hi Sampsa, How timely of you to observe this today. Just last night I got code pieces from Matt Burke (the guy at 9track.net) to add VCB01 (QVSS) support to the simh codebase for the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators. I'm in the process of merging that code and adding the necessary build mechanisms to the makefile as we speak. This will be cleaned up and visible at https://github.com/simh/simh in at most a couple of days.... For folks who build their own binaries, the latest github code has a VAXStation I and VAXStation II with the MonoChrome QVSS video capabilities. sim> SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION enables the video subsystem. The VAXStation I has a limit of 4MB of RAM, the VAXStation II has a limit of 16MB. The makefile should just build the right thing if the development support for libSDL is installed on your platform. Please provide bug reports and/or other feedback with issues created at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues There is a glitch in my scripts which build and package the windows binaries which is failing to build the simulators with video support, so folks who count on the Windows Binaries will have to wait until I fix this. The Windows Binaries (including VAXStation I and VAXStation II) are now available at: https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries Download the latest zip file. Hello! Nice to know Mark. Any suggestions for implementing it on a Raspberry Pi system w/ 512MB of memory? I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as long as you've got the right SDL development pieces available. I did get the code outside of your screen idea to build properly. I'm not sure what this sentence means.... what does "code outside of your screen idea" mean? - Mark Hello! Oh sorry. I meant everything contained within the entire SIMH retrieval except for the screen presentation method. I think you are trying to say that all simulators except the MicroVAX I (VAXStation I) and MicroVAX II (VAXStation II) built. OK, that is expected. Numerous folks are running the latest code on Raspberry Pi systems. The QVSS video on the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators was just merged into the code base last week. If you can't get the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II to build, I'm going to need more information to help. Please create an issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues to record the problem and to contain the details of chasing this down to a solution. Please Include the output produced when you attempted to build these simulators. Thanks. - Mark Hello! That's just it Mark. After using the git pull <repository name> command to pull everything into the source directory I chose, I then entered the created one, examined everything briefly, and then entered the command make and off it went. I first made the BIN directory, and then did that. I did need to build the Altair ones out of sequence however. Also the Nova one as well. I did not make the ones for the older IBM machines or the other simulators that I wasn't familiar with. I found that the screen thing needed the SDL library and I wasn't ready to massage the repositories that make up Debian on Raspberry Pi to find that one so I let wait. My only complaint is that when I ran the vax simulation to confirm that was all working, it then told me that the IDLE function was disabled, that was when I asked it about the devices. Hi Gregg, Nothing in the new codebase should have changed idle behavior (or availability) for any simulator. Please provide the output of "SHOW VERSION" in the simulator which isn't behaving as you want. The complete output produced when the simulator was built will also be useful. - Mark

12 years, 9 months

DECnet default access on RSX...

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2013-06-16 15:11, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-16 14:58, Steve Davidson wrote: -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:51 To: bqt at softjar.se Cc: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; bob at jfcl.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet default access on RSX... On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-15 17:03, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: ... Proxy access is not standardized or documented (at the protocol level). I think it's simply this: the access control fields in the session control protocol are optional. If they are omitted, it's up to the receiving node to decide what to do about it (if the application protocol in question has the notion of access control). In some systems, the answer is "reject". In others, the answer is "use a default account" (RSTS has this). Well, proxy is something that needs to be enabled on both sides for it to work, so it definitely involves passing some information in the packets. So it has to be documented somewhere. Keep searching. I don't think so. RSTS has no notion of proxy, but I distinctly remember having proxies on VMS work when accessed from RSTS with no access control specified. paul I have a proxy from PLUTO::[1,2] to SGC::SYSTEM. The behavior is exactly what Paul says it is. How do you know it is a proxy access, and not the default DECnet account in VMS? Here is one RSX system to another, as illustration: .set /host Host=JOCKE RSX-11M-PLUS V5.0 BL88 .ncp set exec out prox dis .nft mim::info.txt/li NFT -- Error in reading directory MIM::INFO.TXT Access control rejected .ncp set exec out prox ena .nft mim::info.txt/li Directory MIM::DU4:[BQT] 16-JUN-13 15:09:17 INFO.TXT;1 8./35. 08-JUL-10 10:54:52 Total of 8./35. Blocks in 1. Files . Tell you what. Anyone who wants to play with proxy, just try talking to MIM without giving an account. With proxy disabled at your end (or if you lack the capability), you will not be able to talk with MIM, while if you enable proxy at your end, you will. Oh yeah, and to show that you are probably not using proxy information when talking to SGC:: .ncp set exec out prox dis .nft sgc::info.txt/li Directory SGC::SYS$SPECIFIC:[DECNET] 16-JUN-13 15:24:22 INFO.TXT;1 6./9. 30-DEC-11 13:11:22 Total of 6./9. Blocks in 1. Files 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

12 years, 9 months

DECnet default access on RSX...

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2013-06-16 14:58, Steve Davidson wrote: -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:51 To: bqt at softjar.se Cc: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; bob at jfcl.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet default access on RSX... On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-15 17:03, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: ... Proxy access is not standardized or documented (at the protocol level). I think it's simply this: the access control fields in the session control protocol are optional. If they are omitted, it's up to the receiving node to decide what to do about it (if the application protocol in question has the notion of access control). In some systems, the answer is "reject". In others, the answer is "use a default account" (RSTS has this). Well, proxy is something that needs to be enabled on both sides for it to work, so it definitely involves passing some information in the packets. So it has to be documented somewhere. Keep searching. I don't think so. RSTS has no notion of proxy, but I distinctly remember having proxies on VMS work when accessed from RSTS with no access control specified. paul I have a proxy from PLUTO::[1,2] to SGC::SYSTEM. The behavior is exactly what Paul says it is. How do you know it is a proxy access, and not the default DECnet account in VMS? Here is one RSX system to another, as illustration: .set /host Host=JOCKE RSX-11M-PLUS V5.0 BL88 .ncp set exec out prox dis .nft mim::info.txt/li NFT -- Error in reading directory MIM::INFO.TXT Access control rejected .ncp set exec out prox ena .nft mim::info.txt/li Directory MIM::DU4:[BQT] 16-JUN-13 15:09:17 INFO.TXT;1 8./35. 08-JUL-10 10:54:52 Total of 8./35. Blocks in 1. Files . Tell you what. Anyone who wants to play with proxy, just try talking to MIM without giving an account. With proxy disabled at your end (or if you lack the capability), you will not be able to talk with MIM, while if you enable proxy at your end, you will. 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

12 years, 9 months

DECnet default access on RSX...

by jeep＠scshome.net

-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:51 To: bqt at softjar.se Cc: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; bob at jfcl.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet default access on RSX... On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-15 17:03, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: ... Proxy access is not standardized or documented (at the protocol level). I think it's simply this: the access control fields in the session control protocol are optional. If they are omitted, it's up to the receiving node to decide what to do about it (if the application protocol in question has the notion of access control). In some systems, the answer is "reject". In others, the answer is "use a default account" (RSTS has this). Well, proxy is something that needs to be enabled on both sides for it to work, so it definitely involves passing some information in the packets. So it has to be documented somewhere. Keep searching. I don't think so. RSTS has no notion of proxy, but I distinctly remember having proxies on VMS work when accessed from RSTS with no access control specified. paul I have a proxy from PLUTO::[1,2] to SGC::SYSTEM. The behavior is exactly what Paul says it is. -Steve

12 years, 9 months

Losing my fixed IP

by jeep＠scshome.net

-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:12 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Cc: Paul_Koning at Dell.com; md.benson at gmail.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] Losing my fixed IP On 2013-06-15 16:59, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-13 08:23, Mark Benson wrote: Due to the limits on our ability to get internet service of any decent speed, we're having to change packages meaning we will lose out fixed IP in November. I'd like to work towards being able to stay on HECnet before then using STAR69 to maintain my connection. Well, do you know if you'll get different addresses often? Many ISPs give dynamic IP addresses, but you actually stay on the same address for months, which makes it a rather small problem. I haven't had a change in address in over 6 months myself. And even if you do, with dynamic DNS you still have a hostname that stays fixed. All you need is for the things that connect to you, or check your address, to be able to deal with names. Well, they also need to recheck every so often... :-) My bridge program, for example, only do name resolution when processing the config file. Johnny Multi-Watch's check interval is configurable by the user - a system-wide logical actually. -Steve

12 years, 9 months

Losing my fixed IP

by jeep＠scshome.net

-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:59 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Cc: md.benson at gmail.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] Losing my fixed IP On Jun 15, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-13 08:23, Mark Benson wrote: Due to the limits on our ability to get internet service of any decent speed, we're having to change packages meaning we will lose out fixed IP in November. I'd like to work towards being able to stay on HECnet before then using STAR69 to maintain my connection. Well, do you know if you'll get different addresses often? Many ISPs give dynamic IP addresses, but you actually stay on the same address for months, which makes it a rather small problem. I haven't had a change in address in over 6 months myself. And even if you do, with dynamic DNS you still have a hostname that stays fixed. All you need is for the things that connect to you, or check your address, to be able to deal with names. paul This is how the Multi-Watch hook into Multinet works. -Steve

12 years, 9 months

RE: [DECtec] Slight OT: SIMH Framebuffer support

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Sampsa Laine write: This looks cool, anyone try it? http://www.9track.net/simh/video/ Hi Sampsa, How timely of you to observe this today. Just last night I got code pieces from Matt Burke (the guy at 9track.net) to add VCB01 (QVSS) support to the simh codebase for the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators. I'm in the process of merging that code and adding the necessary build mechanisms to the makefile as we speak. This will be cleaned up and visible at https://github.com/simh/simh in at most a couple of days.... For folks who build their own binaries, the latest github code has a VAXStation I and VAXStation II with the MonoChrome QVSS video capabilities. sim> SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION enables the video subsystem. The VAXStation I has a limit of 4MB of RAM, the VAXStation II has a limit of 16MB. The makefile should just build the right thing if the development support for libSDL is installed on your platform. Please provide bug reports and/or other feedback with issues created at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues There is a glitch in my scripts which build and package the windows binaries which is failing to build the simulators with video support, so folks who count on the Windows Binaries will have to wait until I fix this. The Windows Binaries (including VAXStation I and VAXStation II) are now available at: https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries Download the latest zip file. Hello! Nice to know Mark. Any suggestions for implementing it on a Raspberry Pi system w/ 512MB of memory? I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as long as you've got the right SDL development pieces available. I did get the code outside of your screen idea to build properly. I'm not sure what this sentence means.... what does "code outside of your screen idea" mean? - Mark Hello! Oh sorry. I meant everything contained within the entire SIMH retrieval except for the screen presentation method. I think you are trying to say that all simulators except the MicroVAX I (VAXStation I) and MicroVAX II (VAXStation II) built. OK, that is expected. Numerous folks are running the latest code on Raspberry Pi systems. The QVSS video on the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators was just merged into the code base last week. If you can't get the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II to build, I'm going to need more information to help. Please create an issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues to record the problem and to contain the details of chasing this down to a solution. Please Include the output produced when you attempted to build these simulators. Thanks. - Mark Hello! That's just it Mark. After using the git pull <repository name> command to pull everything into the source directory I chose, I then entered the created one, examined everything briefly, and then entered the command make and off it went. I first made the BIN directory, and then did that. I did need to build the Altair ones out of sequence however. Also the Nova one as well. I did not make the ones for the older IBM machines or the other simulators that I wasn't familiar with. I found that the screen thing needed the SDL library and I wasn't ready to massage the repositories that make up Debian on Raspberry Pi to find that one so I let wait. My only complaint is that when I ran the vax simulation to confirm that was all working, it then told me that the IDLE function was disabled, that was when I asked it about the devices. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

12 years, 9 months

RE: [DECtec] Slight OT: SIMH Framebuffer support

by Mark＠infocomm.com

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Sampsa Laine write: This looks cool, anyone try it? http://www.9track.net/simh/video/ Hi Sampsa, How timely of you to observe this today. Just last night I got code pieces from Matt Burke (the guy at 9track.net) to add VCB01 (QVSS) support to the simh codebase for the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators. I'm in the process of merging that code and adding the necessary build mechanisms to the makefile as we speak. This will be cleaned up and visible at https://github.com/simh/simh in at most a couple of days.... For folks who build their own binaries, the latest github code has a VAXStation I and VAXStation II with the MonoChrome QVSS video capabilities. sim> SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION enables the video subsystem. The VAXStation I has a limit of 4MB of RAM, the VAXStation II has a limit of 16MB. The makefile should just build the right thing if the development support for libSDL is installed on your platform. Please provide bug reports and/or other feedback with issues created at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues There is a glitch in my scripts which build and package the windows binaries which is failing to build the simulators with video support, so folks who count on the Windows Binaries will have to wait until I fix this. The Windows Binaries (including VAXStation I and VAXStation II) are now available at: https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries Download the latest zip file. Hello! Nice to know Mark. Any suggestions for implementing it on a Raspberry Pi system w/ 512MB of memory? I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as long as you've got the right SDL development pieces available. I did get the code outside of your screen idea to build properly. I'm not sure what this sentence means.... what does "code outside of your screen idea" mean? - Mark Hello! Oh sorry. I meant everything contained within the entire SIMH retrieval except for the screen presentation method. I think you are trying to say that all simulators except the MicroVAX I (VAXStation I) and MicroVAX II (VAXStation II) built. OK, that is expected. Numerous folks are running the latest code on Raspberry Pi systems. The QVSS video on the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators was just merged into the code base last week. If you can't get the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II to build, I'm going to need more information to help. Please create an issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues to record the problem and to contain the details of chasing this down to a solution. Please Include the output produced when you attempted to build these simulators. Thanks. - Mark

12 years, 9 months

RE: [DECtec] Slight OT: SIMH Framebuffer support

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Sampsa Laine write: This looks cool, anyone try it? http://www.9track.net/simh/video/ Hi Sampsa, How timely of you to observe this today. Just last night I got code pieces from Matt Burke (the guy at 9track.net) to add VCB01 (QVSS) support to the simh codebase for the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators. I'm in the process of merging that code and adding the necessary build mechanisms to the makefile as we speak. This will be cleaned up and visible at https://github.com/simh/simh in at most a couple of days.... For folks who build their own binaries, the latest github code has a VAXStation I and VAXStation II with the MonoChrome QVSS video capabilities. sim> SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION enables the video subsystem. The VAXStation I has a limit of 4MB of RAM, the VAXStation II has a limit of 16MB. The makefile should just build the right thing if the development support for libSDL is installed on your platform. Please provide bug reports and/or other feedback with issues created at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues There is a glitch in my scripts which build and package the windows binaries which is failing to build the simulators with video support, so folks who count on the Windows Binaries will have to wait until I fix this. The Windows Binaries (including VAXStation I and VAXStation II) are now available at: https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries Download the latest zip file. Hello! Nice to know Mark. Any suggestions for implementing it on a Raspberry Pi system w/ 512MB of memory? I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as long as you've got the right SDL development pieces available. I did get the code outside of your screen idea to build properly. I'm not sure what this sentence means.... what does "code outside of your screen idea" mean? - Mark Hello! Oh sorry. I meant everything contained within the entire SIMH retrieval except for the screen presentation method. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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