On 1/31/22 3:00 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
What I mentioned is one or several PDP-11 products,
available for RSTS and I believe RSX. There definitely is an "RJ2780 emulator"
-- the official name may not be quite that. And I think there was also a 3271 emulator,
though I'm not sure if that existed on RSTS.
I have no idea what these things do, since 2780 is something I've never used. Some
sort of remote job entry station? Anyway, it is the only RSTS software that uses a KG11.
DECnet doesn't because on RSTS DECnet only supported devices with hardware CRC: DMC
and friends and later Ethernet.
Yes, 2780 is an RJE protocol.
I did an unsupported software DDCMP, but that does CRC
in software (8 bits at a time, the classic table driven fast software implementation).
That probably outruns a KG11 and in any case I never had access to that hardware.
The KG11 looks like all TTL logic; are you really sure it'd be faster
to do it in software running on similar-generation hardware?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA