On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 02/16/2013 03:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
I was watching the MOP Console system ID messages from DECnet/E on
simh, with an emulated LQA. Noticed something odd: the source address
was broadcast. That's not valid, of course. The question is why that
happened.
The answer is that the emulation uses the address in slot 0 of the
address filter as the source address. The hardware doesn't care what
order the addresses go in as far as filtering is concerned; DECnet/E
puts broadcast in slot 0 and the physical address in slot 1, followed
by any multicast addresses.
Is the SIMH behavior also what a real LQA does? That would be an
interesting DECnet/E bug if so... Or does a real LQA just use the
physical address, as a UNA would?
Hi, Paul. Sorry for not responding sooner. Busy, as usual. However, I
did mark this for some later investigation. However, I now realize that
it's not trivial for me to test, as it would appear a RSTS/E system
would help. :-)
I honestly don't know how a real LQA do. Maybe John Wilson knows more,
since he have been digging into these kind of questions way more than
most people I know...
Or else if you have some realistic suggestion on how I would test this
on my machine, as I do have a 11/93 with a real LQA here (although an
LQA plus).
I can provide access to my RSTS/E machine with a DELQA if that would
be helpful.
Hello!
Only if the occupants next to the machine who happened to be needing
it to keep warm mean. Just six cats of both sizes.
They do.
But what's that big hairy something else doing outside your place?
Gyrating suggestively.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
That word there should be "mind". (Fast keyboard and slow mind.) And
the big hairy thing is trying to get someone out to play with.
Supposedly there's enough stuff on the ground to drive everyone to
distraction.
Did anyone see the news concerning last week's asteroid strike in
Russia? It's being blamed on someone who happens to be on our list.
(And not me.)
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 02/16/2013 03:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
I was watching the MOP Console system ID messages from DECnet/E on
simh, with an emulated LQA. Noticed something odd: the source address
was broadcast. That's not valid, of course. The question is why that
happened.
The answer is that the emulation uses the address in slot 0 of the
address filter as the source address. The hardware doesn't care what
order the addresses go in as far as filtering is concerned; DECnet/E
puts broadcast in slot 0 and the physical address in slot 1, followed
by any multicast addresses.
Is the SIMH behavior also what a real LQA does? That would be an
interesting DECnet/E bug if so... Or does a real LQA just use the
physical address, as a UNA would?
Hi, Paul. Sorry for not responding sooner. Busy, as usual. However, I
did mark this for some later investigation. However, I now realize that
it's not trivial for me to test, as it would appear a RSTS/E system
would help. :-)
I honestly don't know how a real LQA do. Maybe John Wilson knows more,
since he have been digging into these kind of questions way more than
most people I know...
Or else if you have some realistic suggestion on how I would test this
on my machine, as I do have a 11/93 with a real LQA here (although an
LQA plus).
I can provide access to my RSTS/E machine with a DELQA if that would
be helpful.
Hello!
Only if the occupants next to the machine who happened to be needing
it to keep warm mean. Just six cats of both sizes.
They do.
But what's that big hairy something else doing outside your place?
Gyrating suggestively.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 02/15/2013 08:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I was watching the MOP Console system ID messages from DECnet/E on
simh, with an emulated LQA. Noticed something odd: the source address
was broadcast. That's not valid, of course. The question is why that
happened.
The answer is that the emulation uses the address in slot 0 of the
address filter as the source address. The hardware doesn't care what
order the addresses go in as far as filtering is concerned; DECnet/E
puts broadcast in slot 0 and the physical address in slot 1, followed
by any multicast addresses.
Is the SIMH behavior also what a real LQA does? That would be an
interesting DECnet/E bug if so... Or does a real LQA just use the
physical address, as a UNA would?
Hi, Paul. Sorry for not responding sooner. Busy, as usual. However, I
did mark this for some later investigation. However, I now realize that
it's not trivial for me to test, as it would appear a RSTS/E system
would help. :-)
I honestly don't know how a real LQA do. Maybe John Wilson knows more,
since he have been digging into these kind of questions way more than
most people I know...
Or else if you have some realistic suggestion on how I would test this
on my machine, as I do have a 11/93 with a real LQA here (although an
LQA plus).
I can provide access to my RSTS/E machine with a DELQA if that would
be helpful.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Only if the occupants next to the machine who happened to be needing
it to keep warm mean. Just six cats of both sizes.
But what's that big hairy something else doing outside your place?
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 02/15/2013 08:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I was watching the MOP Console system ID messages from DECnet/E on
simh, with an emulated LQA. Noticed something odd: the source address
was broadcast. That's not valid, of course. The question is why that
happened.
The answer is that the emulation uses the address in slot 0 of the
address filter as the source address. The hardware doesn't care what
order the addresses go in as far as filtering is concerned; DECnet/E
puts broadcast in slot 0 and the physical address in slot 1, followed
by any multicast addresses.
Is the SIMH behavior also what a real LQA does? That would be an
interesting DECnet/E bug if so... Or does a real LQA just use the
physical address, as a UNA would?
Hi, Paul. Sorry for not responding sooner. Busy, as usual. However, I
did mark this for some later investigation. However, I now realize that
it's not trivial for me to test, as it would appear a RSTS/E system
would help. :-)
I honestly don't know how a real LQA do. Maybe John Wilson knows more,
since he have been digging into these kind of questions way more than
most people I know...
Or else if you have some realistic suggestion on how I would test this
on my machine, as I do have a 11/93 with a real LQA here (although an
LQA plus).
I can provide access to my RSTS/E machine with a DELQA if that would
be helpful.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 02/16/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Holmes wrote:
Just looked like there wasn't any more efforts focusing on Mac OS X,
since its not a large commercial platform.
Heh. C'mon. It's a GIGANTIC commercial platform. People who aren't
porting to OS X now will be porting to OS X later.
Better yet, though, would be to write the software in a portable
fashion in the first place, and avoid using OS X's hokey whiz-bang
"extensions" to UNIX. Then, very litte "porting" will be necessary,
whichever direction you're going. It's readily possible; I've been
doing it for years.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Thanks Brian.
I understand the focus on the commercial side first and then those efforts spinning off benefits to the personal/hobbyist side.
Just looked like there wasn't any more efforts focusing on Mac OS X, since its not a large commercial platform.
I'd appreciate if you could pass along the question if there are any continuing efforts for Mac OS X.
Mike
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 16, 2013, at 1:13 PM, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:
Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes:
Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X?
I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I
got my MacBookPro couple years ago.=20
Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on
WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to
be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).
I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out
of steam.
That is/was Camiel Vanderhoeven. He's working with Migration Specialties
Inc. (MSI) these days on a commecial Alpha emulation. I've been actively
working with them (MSI) on a parallel project. If you want, I could ask
him if he'd mind entertaining question from you about the ES40 project.
I'm running AlphaVM-Free from EmuVM on Linux. I suspect that one of the
reasons Artem has not ported it to OSX is that he doesn't have anything
running OSX. You could ask him. His email is: artem.alimarin at gmail.com
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VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes:
Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X?
I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I
got my MacBookPro couple years ago.=20
Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on
WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to
be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).
I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out
of steam.
That is/was Camiel Vanderhoeven. He's working with Migration Specialties
Inc. (MSI) these days on a commecial Alpha emulation. I've been actively
working with them (MSI) on a parallel project. If you want, I could ask
him if he'd mind entertaining question from you about the ES40 project.
I'm running AlphaVM-Free from EmuVM on Linux. I suspect that one of the
reasons Artem has not ported it to OSX is that he doesn't have anything
running OSX. You could ask him. His email is: artem.alimarin at gmail.com
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
Look at project's page at www.es40.org.
Sadly they stopped working on it before finishing.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 16, 2013, at 10:47 AM, "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X?
I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I got my MacBookPro couple years ago.
Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).
I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out of steam.
Any suggestions?
Mike
Sent from my iPhone
Hello!
An ES40 project for OS/X? Where? And just for OS/X?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X?
I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I got my MacBookPro couple years ago.
Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).
I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out of steam.
Any suggestions?
Mike
Sent from my iPhone
Hello!
An ES40 project for OS/X? Where? And just for OS/X?
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X?
I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I got my MacBookPro couple years ago.
Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).
I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out of steam.
Any suggestions?
Mike
Sent from my iPhone
