[HECnet] Projects...?

[John Wilson]

My projects come and go (except for E11 of course, which is always the main
one but it's *about* PDP-11s, not *on* PDP-11s -- current project is writing
FS drivers so the stand-alone version will be useful), but the one that's the
closest to being something is KSERVE, a server-only Kermit, originally for
RT-11 but I'm slowly working on a stand-alone version (for transferring raw
disk images).   To make that build from the same sources, I've been isolating
the OS-dependent parts so hopefully I'll do RSTS and RSX versions some day.

Anyway it's a Kermit like any other, except that it supports sliding windows
and large packets, and it's a lot smaller (and way easier to build) than the
"official" Kermits, what with not having a command line interpreter (although
it still sort of does, for "REM K" commands).   All in MACRO-11, naturally.
It would have been kind of cool 25 years ago when anyone might have cared.

I too had a project to write a BBS for RSTS a million years ago -- I guess
everyone did!   Yes, with its own RTS since that's the only way to be 100%
^^C proof.   This was on V7.0-07, mostly MACRO-11, a little bit of BASIC, but
the machine never had more than one modem (actual Bell 212A and later a Vadic
VA3451PA, I still have them somewhere) and I was using it half the time to
dial out to the RPI mainframe anyway so the whole idea was kind of pointless.

John Wilson
D Bit