25 Feb
2020
25 Feb
'20
9:21 p.m.
What kind of Phase II node did you test against??? I'm not aware of many.
A VERY long time ago (late 1970's), DEC managed to get Columbia to test
something called a DN200, which was a DECnet based RJE station.? As it
was far more expensive than a serial line based printer, we never bought
it (but never seemed to return it, either).
The vestigial code in LPTSPL is still there, called NURD (Network Unit
Record Devices) which I was able to adapt to get our 20's to print to
each either.? Basically I wrote a little server (called LSRV) that
emulated the NURD interface well enough.? Then I lobotomized some
strategic parts of the spooler not to notice the difference.? Saved us a
couple of thousand dollars on line printers in the machine room.
As I recall, that was a Phase II node which downloaded it's code from
the 20.? Or maybe it was the version of MCB DN20's we had at the time.
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On 2/25/20 10:53 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
It does work well enough that I was able use it to verify _Phase II_
support. I plan to add intercept support for talking to non-adjacent nodes, but that
isn't in yet. A primitive version is easy, a proper version is quite a lot harder.
paul