15 Oct
2022
15 Oct
'22
8:39 p.m.
On Oct 15, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
...
LSSM has a big Itanium2 VMS machine that's our always-on HECnet node. It also
provides MOP services for our DECserver terminal servers, etc. Because the transatlantic
links can sometimes be a bit slow, and there are several RSX-11M-PLUS systems between LSSM
and my place, I maintain a local copy of the RPM repository on that system, that I copy
periodically from MIM:: and all local instances of rpm are configured to point at that.
One of these days I hope to add MOP load/dump to PyDECnet. For that some network traces
of how VMS loads a terminal server would be helpful, along with a copy of the image it
uses.
What I'd really love to see is similar efforts
for RSTS/E and VMS. (and maybe even RT-11, eventually) I've not done any serious DCL
coding for probably twenty years, but maybe I could take a look at that at some point.
Late version RSTS installation seems to be about as seamless as an RPM-type tool; I think
it's little more than saying "install" and supplying a kit tape that
contains the relevant scripts and binaries. I haven't spent much time with how it
actually works.
paul