That's a good choice; PyDECnet is actively supported, even
proactively supported, now that I reflect on it.
In addition to Linux, you may wish to consider Digital's Ultrix product, which had out of the box 'official' support for DECnet. I did a fair amount of development on it and didn't find it to be any more objectionable than Linux. It was a good platform to transition to other Unix offerings, first SunOS and then your standard Linux flavor.
I don't remember what happened to the VAX platform version of
Ultrix, but I had thought it morphed into Digital Unix for the
Alpha, which then begat True64. We had Digital Unix on Alpha's in
our data centers in the mid-1990's and I have to say, for the time
that was one wicked chip, fast and 64 bits before a number of
notable competitors.
If you are feeling like you may need another four bits, then
there is a fair amount of knowledge here on DECnet for Tops-10 and
Tops-20, some Tops-20 monitor internals level (which you are
unlikely to need).
Thanks for everyone's messages, I'm finally online with a PyDECnet router at 1.870 and an OpenVMS x86 9.2-1 box at 1.871.
My plans include: a couple VAX/VMS boxes (under simh), perhaps an Ubuntu 14 box, and who knows about TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and the PDP-11 systems :)Also maybe joining some of the simh vaxxen to HNET if I manage to understand NJE :)
Supratim, I think I was visiting one of the boxes in your lab, wrote a MAIL message, but can't remember to which box, sorry. I am very curious about DECnet support in older Linux versions, does it come out of the box or is there some trickery involved?
Regards
Alice
On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 02:52, Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseup.net> wrote:
On 5/6/2023 6:29 PM, finitud@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, newbie here :)
Hello Alice.
>
> I used to run OpenVMS 7.3 under simh on a Raspberry Pi, but have never learnt past the "newbie" stage about OpenVMS.
>
> With the availability of the x86 Community Edition, I have now 9.2-1 running under Proxmox at home, and thought "maybe it's time to learn about DECnet and join the HECnet".
>
> So here I am, with exactly 0 idea of how DECnet works but the intention to read some of the docs and figure it out enough to join a node or two (or more?)
Once you decide how to connect to HECnet, please reach out to Johnny
Bilquist (via this mailing list or bqt@softjar.se) for next steps.
Typically you will be assigned to one of the HECnet areas based on
proximity and the owner of that Area will then assign DECnet addresses
to you for your machines.
Presently many people are using DECnet/Python to uplink to HECnet, most
commonly using MULTINET over TCP as the DECnet-over-IP mechanism.
Best,
Supratim
>
> Regards,
>
> Alice
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