4 Nov
2021
4 Nov
'21
8:22 p.m.
On Oct 28, 2021, at 9:26 AM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
I found the code, it's in NETCON (specifically, NCP). So now all I have to do is
reverse engineer it. That's going to be interesting because I haven't looked at
Macro-10 in 45 years, and even back then I didn't really know it well at all.
paul
On Oct 27, 2021, at 9:32 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
TOPOL? Hmm... No, I hadn't heard of that, either. It sounds almost familiar, but I
don't know why Tops-20 would be asking for it because it doesn't appear to be
serving it, viz:...
I'm guessing it has to do with learning the shape of the Phase II network.
That's an entirely different problem than Phase III and later. The connect is by
name, so object 0, object name TOPOL. And I don't have anything to answer that
request so I have no trace. I suppose I could build a dummy responder just to see what
question is asked.
If indeed it's Phase II topology related, it would make sense for the host not to
have that server, and of course it would also go away in Phase III. The host requests,
but does not offer, "intercept" which is node name based routing in Phase II
that was implemented only in a few places. Somewhere I saw that it exists only to get
past the front end (on larger machines) which was handled as a separate node so it counts
as a network hop. Without intercept, Phase II only goes a single hop.