17 Aug
2023
17 Aug
'23
2:55 a.m.
On 2023-08-17 01:11, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 8/16/23 18:19, Johnny Billquist wrote:
All networkable machines at LSSM that have DECnet protocol stacks are
configured with Area 61 addresses, and are functionally "on HECnet"
whenever they're powered up. There's also our "always-on" node, an
Itanium2 running VMS, which provides network services internally but is
also visible to HECnet.
Execllent!
Pittsburgh is nice, 74F currently, and we've got a big museum here
that's chock full of great hardware to work on. Just sayin'.. ;)
...and how much is online on HECnet? ;-) There are many other DEC machines...PDP-11/05,
11/34, 11/03, 11/23,
several PDP-8s, a PDP-14, over a hundred VAXen, about a hundred Alphas,
a few more VMS-capable HP Itanium2s, etc, but those aren't on exhibit,
or on HECnet. (I still need to wrap my head around DECnet-11M forthe
non-Plus RSX systems.)
Ugh. DECnet-11M is mainly a headache because you need to manually setup
memory partitions for stuff. Things are just so much more primitive in
-11M...
Our Symbolics XL-1201 Lisp Machine has DECnet
installed, and our
gaggle of Symbolics 3600-series machines will too, once we restore them.
Cool. I know that there was DECnet for those machines, but I've never
seen it in action.
So yes, wink all you want, my friend; we long ago
adopted the "go big
or go home" mentality, and the proof is in the running machines and the
visitors practically passing out as soon as they walk through the front
door. B-)
:-)
Johnny
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