13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
8:11 p.m.
Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I just went back to the "decnet8.doc" file which is a DECnet for RTS-8
user manual and internals document. Among other things, it describes the
protocol (DDCMP and NSP).
I don't know much about PDP-8 software, but if someone manages to get that
code running I'll take a stab at PyDECnet support for talking to it.
Can pyDECnet do asynchronous DECnet over a telnet port? I'm thinking the
easiest way to set this up for debugging/testing would be to use simh for
the PDP-8 and a virtual KL8-E connected to pyDECnet.
Ultimately it would be nice to run it on real hardware with a real async
DDCMP connection, but that's for later.
Bob