28 Mar
2020
28 Mar
'20
12:50 a.m.
On 2020-03-27 16:47, Robert Armstrong wrote:
That don't necessarily mean much. With RSX, DECnet has its own device
drivers.
Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
As a Phase III node it would be DDCMP only ...
I don't remember if it supports any synchronous interfaces ...
There are no device drivers included with RT11 for anything that I
recognize as a synchronous interface, so I would assume it only supported a
standard asynchronous serial port. But that's another curious thing - there ARE
drivers included with RT11
for the DEUNA, DEQNA and the Pro series Ethernet NI. What was the point of
those? Did DEC think people would write their own networking software?
Yes, I believe so. That is also the case for the Unibus ethernet in RSX,
for which there is also a device driver provided in RSX itself. (If you
use DECnet, it does not use that device driver.)
Megan Gentry wrote a file transfer program under RT-11 which
communicates over ethernet. Should not be too hard to find, and is an
example of a normal user level program using these device drivers.
Johnny
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