28 Dec
2021
28 Dec
'21
11:11 p.m.
dir mta0: would only work for either a Tops-20 or ANSI labeled tape with
volume recognition on.? You're not doing that by assigning the tape
drive directly.
But they're probably not labeled; I don't recall that DEC shipped this way.
If you let me know what tapes you're looking at, I can have a look and
give you some pointers or tips.
Basically, you're going to need to make a minor change in the
SYSTEM:CONFIG.CMD file and add a stanza for DECnet.? The config file is
monitor ver specific, so it would look something like SYSTEM:4-1-CONFIG.CMD.
Everything else would go into the SYSTEM:CMD file which is what is
(usually) parsed by OPR.? This would have the NCP commands which Orion
would be sent to the NICE process. DECNET-20_V2.1_2020_7-20-82 has the
necessary executables, as I recall.
Version for DECnet Phase II may predate an integration with Orion, but I
don't think so.
On 12/28/21 3:02 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Dec 26, 2021, at 2:10 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
That is very interesting. What image did you finally wind up using, actually?
This one: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap…
The bad one is this one:
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp10/magtape/dec_distribs/TOPS-20/BB-D86…
I have downloaded images that also seemed to have
erroneous data; I believe I reached out to you about the gap in NCU/NCP that I
encountered.
I believe you will also need to load this tape, which has 2020 utilities:
DECNET-20_V2.1_2020_7-20-82. However, this that has the defective NCU/NCP source.
However, the extracted HTML appears to be fine, which is odd...
Now that I have the
basic TOPS-20 V4.1, I'm trying to find out how to add DECnet. There are several tapes
out there that claim to be DECnet V2.0 or V2.1. But I have no idea what to do with them.
The DECnet-20 V2 manual has an installation chapter (chapter 10) but it starts with
having the relevant files on disk, and offers no insight on how to get them from tape. I
tried each of the various tape images, some seem to be SIMH and some TPC format, but none
of them are anything that DUMPER understands. I thought that DUMPER is normally how one
gets installation files off tape. (DIR MTA0: doesn't show anything either.)
Any pointers? Manuals?
paul