The DN200/DN20 actually supports 5 Dmc class sync lines with some limitations with number
of buffers per line; the system is unmapped i.e. only 28 kW available and only 5
concurrent sync lines of one class will fit comfortably within an otherwise maxed
combination of terminal lines and peripherals.
I use the Dmc's for that as they will communicate with every class of sync interfaces,
so with Dups as well.
Mixed varieties of sync lines diminish the max achievable active number of lines.
Theoretically one can have more lines per controller and more controllers, but memory
constrains what will work. I have not tried Dup's yet for exceeding the pseudo
standard of 2 lines.
Reindert
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of
Robert Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, 17 November, 2021 00:12
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] ANF10 network --> Anf10 KL<>KS + DN200
Yes, please!
And does your DN200 support 4 synchronous lines? Did you modify that too? The ANF10
manual says it only supports two.
Thanks,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of
Peter Lothberg
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 3:02 PM
To: hecnet
Subject: Re: [HECnet] ANF10 network --> Anf10 KL<>KS + DN200
Reindert,
Would you share the patches to Tops10/simh to support the 4 DUP-11's?
-P
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Voorhorst" <R.Voorhorst at
swabhawat.com>
To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 5:15:00 PM
Subject: RE: [HECnet] ANF10 network --> Anf10 KL<>KS + DN200
L.S.
Anf10 ethernet and sync lines are 2 separate domains and currently
there are no standard interconnections.
The (now late) Johnny Ericsson had an Anf10 tunnel but I never tried it.
On a KL10 with dte interface a certain routing should be possible, but
that cannot yet be done I also restored a DN200 Pdp11 simh workstation
(see Anfu63) with terminals and peripherals with remote printing,
plotting etc.
The network looks like this from the multi kdp/dup node with 2 decnet
and 2
anf10 active:
.net/t
[ANF10 network: connected to ANFW08(57), located at ANFW08(57), 5 nodes]
Node ANFW04 (53) 77(8), 55(8), 54(8)
Node ANFW05 (54) 77(8), 53(8)
Node ANFW06 (55) 77(8), 53(8)
Node ANFW08 (57) 77(10)
Node ANFU63 (77) 53(6), 54(6), 55(6), 57(6)
[DECnet network: local node SWBW08, 8 reachable nodes in area 63]
Name Number Line Cost Hops L.Links Delay
SWBC01 (63.50) KDP-0-0 7 1
SWBV89 (63.89) KDP-0-0 7 1
SWBW01 (63.51) KDP-0-0 11 2
SWBW04 (63.54) KDP-0-0 12 2
SWBW05 (63.55) KDP-0-1 7 1
SWBW06 (63.56) KDP-0-0 12 2
SWBW08 (63.58) local 0 0 0 5000
SWBX01 (63.41) KDP-0-0 11 2
.net
[ANF10 network: connected to ANFW08(57), located at ANFW08(57), 5 nodes]
Node ANFW04 (53) Swbw04 Tops10-7.07/34201 01-aug-20
Node ANFW05 (54) Swbw05 Tops10-7.07/34201 01-aug-20
Node ANFW06 (55) Swbw06 Tops10-7.07/34201 16-jul-20
Node ANFW08 (57) SwbW08 Tops10-7.06/34100 27-Jul-20
Node ANFU63 (77) DN200 V25(244) 02-Aug-89
[DECnet network: local node SWBW08, 8 reachable nodes in area 63]
SWBC01 SWBV89 SWBW01 SWBW04 SWBW05 SWBW06 SWBW08 SWBX01
Reindert