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by bqt＠softjar.se

Since I occasionally get questions about real machines for reference or testing, I figured I should announce that after some work, Update have brought their PDP-11/70 back to life, and on line. It is accessible from HECnet as MAGICA:: and on the Internet as Magica.Update.UU.SE. telnet is listening on both port 23 and 10023. ftp is listening on both port 21 and 10021. An HTTP server is also running on the machine, where you can even see a picture of the machine serving. (http://magica.update.uu.se) A guest account is available on the machine, and people are free to request accounts of their own as well. The machine as such is a PDP-11/70 running RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 with some improvements, with (at the moment) one UDA-50, one RL-11, and one DELUA. Four RA73 disks, one RL02 disk, and the console terminal. 3.5 Meg of memory and an FPP. I try to keep as many tools as I have available on Magica. So you have both PDP-11 C and DECUS C. BASIC+2, F77, Datatrieve, Oregon Pascal, XLISP, BCPL, FMS-11, Kermit-11, ZEMU, Mail-11, RATFIV, PDP-11 Symbolic Debugger, RTEM-11, Sort/Merge, as well as DECnet and my TCP/IP. Feel free to play around, experiment, play games, or whatever (most Infocom games are there as well). But please behave. If anyone have questions, I am happy to answer them. On the web page served, there is also a link to a bunch of manuals for RSX, networking and layered products. And just for completeness sake, in addition to Magica, Update is also running MIM, which is an emulated PDP-11/74 with pretty much the same software setup, but of course way faster. Only one CPU online though, since the 11/74 emulation in E11 have some bugs that cause it to be unstable when I bring additional CPUs online. (The RSX manuals are actually served by Mim.) I hope people will find it interesting/useful/amusing. Johnny

9 years

EISNER account problems

by sampsa＠mac.com

Guys, Does anybody know anyone over at EISNER? I?m trying to prove my identity, for some stupid reason I apparently accidentally registered two accounts and used an SSH public key to log into the one I use so I have no idea what the password is and EISNER is no longer accepting my SSH logins. Sampsa

9 years, 1 month

DEC Legacy Event, 15-16 October 2016, Windermere, UK PDP VAX Alpha VMS RSX

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Greetings It's oh so quiet, shh.., shh.. Just a reminder that DEC Legacy is on this October again! Come make some noise! Tickets can be purchased either direct from the DEC Legacy website: http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/register or via the eBay listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331937152752 Would be great to see some old faces and some new ones! Regards, Mark.

9 years, 1 month

Layered products for OpenVMS

by fcoffey＠misernet.net

Afternoon all ... Is there a VMS layered product repository available on HECNET ? There was some discussion on c.o.v. about LSEDIT, and I'd to play around with that. I emailed the OpenVMS Customer Lab about getting FTP access to layered products as a hobbyist, but they say since OpenVMS 8.3 is EOL, they won't provide the link. I did not think layered products were version specific? I suppose I could upgrade my DS10 to a more recent version, but that seems like a lot just to play with a layered product. Fred --- $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928) %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels

9 years, 1 month

Bridge contact lost

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

Hello, I?ve lost connection to Update so my area is off-hook. Am I the only one having problems?

9 years, 1 month

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Hi all, > > I was trying to search the "Ask the Wizard" archive, but HP seems to ha= >ve screwed up the URL so that it points to HPE's OpenVMS info page, but can= >'t find a link to the Wizard index. > > > Anyone know of a mirror for "Ask the Wizard" or a short cut url to the = >working old url or to a new HPE url? > > > Thanks in advance. Hoff wrote most of those responses. He may have them on hit site and or a link to where they've landed at HPE.com -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 1 month

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Was trying to find a wizard article on restricting which accounts can login= > via telnet. > >I use multinet and OpenVMS 8.3. > > >Would like to allow only a few captive accounts to login via telnet and for= >ce all others to use SSH (or console). > > >Since I figured this is been done before, it would be in Ask the Wizard ind= >ex. I don't know about Multinet but under TCPIP Services, TELNET is REMOTE and SSH is LOCAL. You can easily restrict accounts based upon that. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 1 month

URL for Ask the Wizard

by mholmes10＠hotmail.com

Hi all, I was trying to search the "Ask the Wizard" archive, but HP seems to have screwed up the URL so that it points to HPE's OpenVMS info page, but can't find a link to the Wizard index. Anyone know of a mirror for "Ask the Wizard" or a short cut url to the working old url or to a new HPE url? Thanks in advance.

9 years, 1 month

Future problems?

by wilson＠dbit.com

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:09:24 +0200 >Interesting, as XXDP V2 have a format that appears to be pretty much the >same as RT-11. (Including FLX being able to read it, more or less.) Hmm. My experience (of reading XXDP V2 disks with my own code) disagrees. And the RSX doc says that FLX supports DOS-11 disks/DECtapes (in addition to DOS-11 magtapes which are *much* easier), which are very similar to XXDP+ format (so maybe FLX has tweaks for the slight differences?). John Wilson D Bit

9 years, 2 months

Future problems?

by wilson＠dbit.com

From: <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:17:11 +0000 >>I didn't even know that there was a DOS-11 disk format, but thinking about >>it, it would seem obvious there should be one. > >Yes, there is, different from everything else as far as I know. I think >the DECtape format is faintly related. Some DOS manuals may give some >clues, but I've never looked into it or had any exposure to DOS disk file >system internals. Yes it's in the manuals, and the (commented) source code to PUTR.COM has some explanation too. I believe the DECtape and disk formats are the same, except that the MFD1 is located at block 1 on disks and block 64. (^O100) on DECtapes. The DOS/BATCH disk format is also used by XXDP before V2. XXDP V2 has its own similar (but different) format. John Wilson D Bit

9 years, 2 months

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