Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-15 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2016-03-15 14:13, Paul Koning wrote: On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:47 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: ... I don't remember who I talk to, but it might have been Paul, but it appears DECnet-8 is pretty much Phase I, from what we figured out. Maybe DEC wrote some newer version that

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-15 Thread Paul Koning
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:47 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > ... > I don't remember who I talk to, but it might have been Paul, but it appears > DECnet-8 is pretty much Phase I, from what we figured out. Maybe DEC wrote > some newer version that have not been found, since

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-15 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2016-03-15 04:41, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote: I just skimmed the manual, but it looks like DECnet-8 was really limited. It's basically a toolkit for writing your own applications that talk via DECnet; the only standard

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote: > I just skimmed the manual, but it looks like DECnet-8 was really limited. > It's basically a toolkit for writing your own applications that talk via > DECnet; the only standard applications supplied are TLK and LSN

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Robert Armstrong
>As I said, I did not have DECnet/8 in hand 30 years ago Sorry - I missed that part... I just skimmed the manual, but it looks like DECnet-8 was really limited. It's basically a toolkit for writing your own applications that talk via DECnet; the only standard applications supplied are TLK

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote: >>but I brought RTS/8 up on real hardware 30 years ago. > > What communications hardware does it require?? A DP8/E? Or can it do > async DDCMP with a KL8/E? As I said, I did not have DECnet/8 in hand 30 years ago, but

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Robert Armstrong
>but I brought RTS/8 up on real hardware 30 years ago. What communications hardware does it require?? A DP8/E? Or can it do async DDCMP with a KL8/E? Bob ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Henry Bent wrote: > Has anyone successfully brought up RTS/8 on SIMH? I haven't brought up RTS/8 on Simh, but I brought RTS/8 up on real hardware 30 years ago. > ... I'm in the middle of slogging through editing > RTS/8's PARAM.PA based

[Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

2016-03-14 Thread Henry Bent
Has anyone successfully brought up RTS/8 on SIMH? I'm starting pretty much from scratch, coming from a mostly 32 bit Unix background. Having taught myself the basics of OS8 I'm in the middle of slogging through editing RTS/8's PARAM.PA based on the V2B manual on Bitsavers, but I figured there