16 Jul
2019
16 Jul
'19
1:38 a.m.
On 2019-07-15 12:52, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
There is some protocol bug in Linux latd. And unfortunately, that bug in
turn triggers a bug in RSX LAT, so that not only are connections
dropped, but memory is lost on the RSX side. So after a while, the
system becomes unusable.
latd was developed by people just trying to reverse engineer LAT by
looking at traffic between a VMS host and a DECserver. And the code is
an ugly C++ hack. Someone should rewrite it. Especially as the protocol
specs are now available.
I have been thinking about it, but have not had any time to even do a
serious attempt.
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
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My experience with latd in Linux is that it
sucks. It sortof works if
you are lucky, but there are problems in it, which makes it undesirable
to use with RSX at least.
My experience is that for connecting to a Tops-[12]0 system it works,
even if the thing, as you say, sucks in several ways. Considering
myself lucky then.