25 Feb
2020
25 Feb
'20
4:53 p.m.
On Feb 25, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Robert Armstrong <bob
at jfcl.com> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of
Paul Koning
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:53 AM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...
Linux or Mac, including at least one example on Linux on a z/390, and another on
Beaglebone Black. But the point of the exercise was to create code that would run,
unchanged, on anything that supports Python. For example, while I avoid Windows if at all
possible, it certainly should run there without trouble. Or NetBSD, to pick just one
other random example.
Paul Koning [paulkoning at comcast.net] wrote:
There was, but I think Python recently dropped
VMS support due to lack of a maintainer.
Dropped VMS or dropped VAX? There was a Python for AXP (although I don't know if
it's still supported) but I don't think there was for VAX.
How do people who use your router typically run it? Do they run it on Linux? TOPS-10 is
Phase IV, right? Any of the common DECnet implementations should talk to that.
TOPS-10 v7.04 (or maybe 7.05) is Phase IV. That's good news - I've wanted to
set up a TOPS-10 simulation, but running a simh780 just to route DECnet for the DMR on
TOPS-10 was not attractive.
I'd rather have TOPS-20 but as you say TOPS-20 on simh with networking is not very
practical.