[HECnet] TOPS-10 DECnet Phase IV

[gerry77 at mail.com]

Hello everyone,

days ago there was some debate about which Digital systems other than VMS
could run DECnet Phase IV... This is the proof that TOPS-10 can! :)

This is a CTERM connection:

| ALPHA::SYSTEM$ set host dieci
| 
| T10 DECnet node DIECI 10:16:08 TTY4 system 2034
| Connected to Node ALPHA Line # 0
| Please LOGIN
| 
| .login 1,2
| Job 4   T10 DECnet node DIECI   TTY4
| [LGNJSP Other jobs same PPN]
| 10:16       1-Jul-10     Thursday
| 
| .systat
| 
| Status of T10 DECnet node DIECI at 10:16:32 on 01-Jul-110
| 
| Uptime 23:14:34, 88% Null time = 88% Idle + 0% Lost, 10% Overhead
| 15 Jobs in use out of 120.   15 logged in, 13 detached.
| 
| Job       Who         Line#       What     Size(P)   State     Run Time
| 
|   1       [OPR]         DET751   STOMPR   13+12     SL                         0 01
|   2       [OPR]         CTY         OPR         67+40     HB                         0
|   3       [OPR]         DET751   FAL-10   118+40   SL                         0
|   4       [OPR]           4           SYSTAT   23+SPY   RN                         0
|   .
|   .
|   .
| 
| .kjob
| [LGNJSP Other jobs same PPN]
| Job 4   User OPERATOR [1,2]
| Logged-off TTY4   at 10:16:33   on   1-Jul-10
| Runtime: 0:00:00, KCS:0, Connect time: 0:00:32
| Disk Reads:0, Writes:0, Blocks saved:10
| 
| %REM-S-END, control returned to node ALPHA::
| ALPHA::SYSTEM$

This is the output from NCP:

| ALPHA::SYSTEM$ mcr ncp tell dieci sho exe char
| 
| 
| Node Volatile Characteristics as of   1-JUL-2010 10:30:06
| 
| Executor node = 1.1010 (DIECI)
| 
| Identification                     = DECnet-10 Version 4.0
| Management version             = V4.0.0
| Loop count                             = 1
| Loop length                           = 127
| Loop Data type                     = mixed
| Incoming timer                     = 30
| Outgoing timer                     = 60
| NSP version                           = V4.0.0
| .
| .
| .

And, on the other side, this is an incoming DAP connection:

| OPR>sho sta fal
| OPR>
| 10:33:09                               -- System Device Status --
| 
| FAL-Stream Status:
|     Strm           Status               Node     Connect Time     Bytes
|     ----   ---------------   ------   ------------   -------
|           0   Active                     ALPHA         00:00:27                   0
|                 Reading TSU:TSU.MIC[1,2] for user 1,2
|           1   Idle
|           2   Idle

This is a DAP copy from VMS to TOPS-10:

| .r nft
| 
| *copy =alpha::nodes.txt/user
| For remote alpha::nodes.txt
|   User-id: system
|   Account:
|   Password:
|   DSKB:[1,2]NODES.TXT <= ALPHA::SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]NODES.TXT.1
| Total of 296 words in 3 blocks in 1 file at 23877 baud
| *

All the usual services work both ways, with the sole exception of Phone that
doesn't exist on TOPS-10. I'm still learning how to use and configure the
Thing, and as a matter of facts I'm still running with security disabled.
The OS is TOPS-10 7.04 with the latest patches (TSU04, December 1990). The
emulator is Ken Harrenstien's KLH10 release 2.0h (Panda distribution) and
the tape images come from the Trailing Edge PDP-10 repository.

Thanks to everyone at alt.sys.pdp10 and to Beethoven's 9th Symphony. :)

Bye,
G.


P.S.: DIECI means ten in Italian. :)