13 Jul
2011
13 Jul
'11
12:44 a.m.
On 2011-07-12 23:14, Joe Ferraro wrote:
While we are on the topic, does anyone have any experience with TOPS-20
/ DECNET? I've haven't had time to mess with it of late, but I was
unsuccessful in a previous evening's attempt or two.
Well, doh...! :-)
.ncp tell sol sho exec cha
Node characteristics as of 12-JUL-11 23:38:44
Executor node = 59.10 (SOL)
Identification = Systems Concepts SF CA USA - SC30M - DN-20 4.0, Management v
ersion = 4.0.0
Loop count = 1, Loop length = 127
Loop with = Mixed, Incoming timer = 30
Outgoing timer = 60, NSP version = 4.0.0
Maximum links = 65535, Delay factor = 48
Delay weight = 10
Inactivity timer = 120, Retransmit factor = 10
Routing version = 2.0.0, Type = Routing IV
Routing timer = 600
Broadcast routing timer = 40, Maximum address = 1023
Maximum circuits = 20
Maximum cost = 100
Maximum hops = 16, Maximum visits = 20
Maximum broadcast endnodes = 64
Maximum broadcast routers = 32
Maximum buffers = 80, Buffer size = 576
Segment buffer size = 576
.
So, yes, there are people around... Like I said - not everyone on this list is even
running a VMS system...
Johnny
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com
<mailto:md.benson at gmail.com>> wrote:
On 12 Jul 2011, at 21:48, hvlems at zonnet.nl <mailto:hvlems at zonnet.nl>
wrote:
DECnet/AIX was a 3rd party effort IIRC
I haven't searched the internet yet but who knows what is available.
Perhaps the opensource decnet kit may be portable.
I know there's a DECNet kit for Linux out there somewhere. Not sure
about anything else. Nothing crops up on a quick Google search that
isn't dated early 90s.
I wasn't aware that AIX was so hobbyist friendly.
The hardware is
vey unfamiliar for me though.
The hardware is generally pretty unique (save for it's similarity in
patches to PPC Macs) - all IBM stuff generally is. The OS is
proprietary but you can pick up media kits off eBay for not a lot.
Also IBM documentation, certainly for RS/6000 / pSeries hardware and
AIX, is readily available online without even needing a login.
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