14 Mar
2023
14 Mar
'23
3:08 p.m.
On Mar 13, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Robert Armstrong
<bob(a)jfcl.com> wrote:
Yes, it's documented in doc/config. Your choice of DDCMP over TCP (straight 8-bit
data) or TCP over Telnet (8 bit data with handling of escaping for the Telnet command
character 0xff).
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.
PyDECnet can do that as well. It's how I talk to my Pro (since I don't yet have a
CNA driver).
paul