[HECnet] Public Services over DECnet

Looking forward to DEC Legacy 2018! Regards Rob From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens Sent: 30 December 2017 19:27 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Public Services over DECnet Seasons greetings to all. I've been lurking on the list for a while and not really involved in vintage computing at all over the past year or so. What I will say is that I am in the process of trying to organise another DEC Legacy Event for 2018 - it will either be in May or November, to be decided shortly. To bring my post on topic I can recommend the 'Writing VAX/VMS Applications using Pascal' by Theo De Klerk if you want an introduction into some of the VAX/VMS specific features such as ASTs. I don't have a technical background with DECnet, only as a user. It does indeed work great. I'm jealous I wasn't involved in DEC itself - Steve Davidson has some great stories about the scalability of VAX/VMS hardware and networking infrastructure. Regards, Mark. On 30 December 2017 at 19:10, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com <mailto:robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> > wrote: A SYS$QIO is just a system call used to perform I/O. An AST is an ?asynchronous system trap?, otherwise known as an interrupt routine. An event flag is a process synchronisation mechanism. Regards Rob From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> ] On Behalf Of Mark J. Blair Sent: 30 December 2017 18:00 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Public Services over DECnet On Dec 30, 2017, at 06:05, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net <mailto:supratim at riseup.net> > wrote: My experience with OpenVMS was mostly doing SYS$QIOs, ASTs and Event Flags controlling factory shop-floor equipment I don't know what SYS$QIOs, ASTs or Event Flags are yet, but controlling factory shop floor equipment sounds like my cup of tea! Setting up anonymous file access sounds straightforward. I need to read up on access control for launching remote batch jobs. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net <mailto:nf6x at nf6x.net> > http://www.nf6x.net/