Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 22, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 02/21/2019 07:43 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > ... >> The mapping from Ethernet to 802.2 SNAP is trivial, but yes, you do need >> that mapping. > > I'm still pontificating how trivial the mapping between Ethernet I

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-22 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 02/21/2019 07:43 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: "raw 802.3" is a bug, caused by a programmer not understanding how the specs work. I thought people started using 802.3 /before/ the 802.2 specification was finished. Thus it's hard to follow what doesn't exit. Or at least that's what I'

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-22 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 02/21/2019 04:02 AM, Dave Wade wrote: I think we have a layer disconnect here. There is a PHYSICAL connection, but logically the SNA traffic just passes through the box. You define the MAC addresses of the end points in the 3174 but it knows nothing of the traffic passing through. As far a

Re: TI Explorer Lisp machine tapes

2019-02-22 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > has there been ANY posts about the Explorer simulator in the last decade? > I haven’t posted about mine; When I left off, it was at a dead end. TI lost GENASYS, so there is no way to generate a new system, and no complete syst