10 Mar
2019
10 Mar
'19
4:23 p.m.
On 3/10/19 10:40 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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.)
Very likely true. The original KL10 doc clearly says only one NIC is
supported. I just try my best to keep my DECnet and IP subnets isolated
if I can; two NICs help.
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.
Never seen or logged into a TOP-20 system ... as you say below, curious
about what it looks like. Anyway, have a Panda release up now, working
through tips for the basics.
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:
--
Sent from a Compaq CQ61 running Linux Mint Tessa
-
Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got no gal to make you smile
Don't worry, be happy
- Bobby McFerrin
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