10 Mar
2019
10 Mar
'19
3:40 p.m.
As far as I am aware, it was never supported to have more than one
NIA-20 on a KL10.
Also, since I think that TOPS-20 is endnode only, I suspect it would be
of limited use, had it even been supported.
(Yes, you could have had a second interface for just fallback, in case
the first one broke, but it was rare that you would have two separate
ethernets in the first place, so then it would only be if the NIA-20
itself broke, but then you'd probably want to power down the machine
anyhow.)
I know of KLH10s, but I don't know if any have a guest account.
Although, I'm not sure what you think you would see from inside TOPS-20.
But it's a good question if there is any TOPS-20 machine on HECnet with
guest account. I guess it could be interesting for others to just
experience what TOPS-20 looks and feels like.
I don't have any myself.
Johnny
On 2019-03-10 15:28, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Starting from zero with both KLH10 and TOPS-20. Newbie
questions, surely:
1) Is there a KLH10 distribution for Linux that supports VDE2? (It
appears it was at the least added? to the NetBSD target by Olaf
'Rhialto' Seibert after being reuested by Cory Smelosky, going by
https://github.com/PDP-10/klh10/issues/2)
2) Is it possible in KLH10 to have two network adapters, for example,
something like
# DECnet adapter
devdef ni0 564 ni20 dedic=true ifmeth=vde ifc=/tmp/vde-dnet
enaddr=aa:00:04:00:XX:YY
# IP adapter
devdef ni1 1500 ni20 dedic=true ifmeth=vde ifc=/tmp/vde-ip
enaddr=12:34:56:aa:bb:cc
3) Are there any KLH10 TOPS-20 systems active on HECnet now on which I
could have an account to look around?
Thanks
Supratim
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