> Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
>The -2020 will be tricky to get up on HECnet, though. As
far as I
>remember/know, it only officially
had Phase III. And you need to run
>TOPS-20 V4.
>
>Not sure if Tops-10 ever had DECnet
on them, but if it did, I would
>suspect it's the same story there.
The -2020s I ever used just ran
>Tops-10 with ANF-10.
Oh, come on
- be serious... TOPS-10 had DECnet Phase-IV, both on the KL
and the KS (2020) machines. There are even some such
machines on HECnet today!!
$
set host venti
SIMH
KS10 VENTI 7.04 NET 12:36:12 TTY10 system 4999
Connected
to Node LEGATO Line # 0
AUTHORIZED
USERS ONLY!
Please
LOGIN
.net
[ANF10
network: connected to VENTI(20), located at VENTI(20), 3
nodes]
Node
VENTI (20) SIMH KS10 VENTI 7.04 NET 18-Nov-21
Node
TWONKY (37) TWONKY KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
Node
TWONK2 (40) TWONK2 KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
[DECnet
network: local node VENTI, 17 reachable nodes in area 2]
(2.99)
(2.152) (2.153) (2.170) (2.199) A2RTR BOINGO GLDRTR
HUSKY LEGATO
MASTIF
REACH THEARK TOMMYT VENTI VENTI2 ZITI
.KJOB
.ini
SIMH
KS10 VENTI 7.04 NET 12:36:21 TTY10 system 4999
Connected
to Node LEGATO Line # 0
AUTHORIZED
USERS ONLY!
Please
LOGIN
.log
13,730
Job
14 SIMH KS10 VENTI 7.04 NET TTY0
Password:
[LGNLAS
Last access to [13,730] succeeded on 6-Sep-122:07:27:46]
12:38
6-Sep-122 Tuesday
.set
host mim
[Connected
to RSX-11M+ system MIM::, using CTERM protocol]
[Type
^\,<RET> to return]
?NRTRMT
Required message types not all supported
.
It even
understands how to talk to other areas, although MIM doesn’t
seem very friendly.
The 2020
machines never had Ethernet, at least not in any official
capacity. Perhaps that’s what you are confused about? A
2020 only supported synchronous links and could only be an
end node.
Bob