[HECnet] Re: DECnet kit for RT-11

[Steve Davidson]

Marty and Megan are the same person.   Marty and I used to go dumpster diving at
"The Mill" for spare parts.   I built my office PDP-11/23+ from many of those
parts with Marty's help.   Marty became Megan just as I was leaving the RT-11
group (circa July 86).

The XC handler was done at the same time (give or take) as XU and XQ.   It is
done with a prefix file (.INCLUDE) of the common source for X?.   I will have to
boot up my Pro to say for sure.   It did ship in the V5.x timeframe with the
Pro kit.

DECnet/RT-11 shipped on 6 RX50's.   I have only been able to find the last 6.   I
have been cleaning up my basement trying to find the others.   I can't imagine
how the kit got separated - but it did somehow and so I keep looking.   I have
been looking for it for some time.   The basement is large and I still have a
ways to go.   I have to warn you... the kit is LARGE and the memory footprint
is nothing short of UGLY!   You do get to tune it a bit but it's still UGLY!

-Steve


Marty or Megan?   Last time I asked Megan about it, she thought she 
had a kit, but it was where she couldn't get to it.   I know that 
feeling I'm only just starting to get access to much of my hardware 
that has been unaccessible for the past decade.

I've been trying to get a kit for a decade or more. :-(   In that time 
I've been able to learn almost nothing about it.   The existence of an 
XC handler is news to me.

Zane




At 3:37 PM -0400 6/6/10, Steve Davidson wrote:
Zane,

I have been able to find only half the kit.   It is installed on my 
Pro however.
DEC only made the one kit - the Pro was never included or excluded to my
knowledge.   When I joined the RT-11 group DECnet on RT-11 was cancelled within
a week of my start date.   I had hoped to work on that project, but that never
came to be.   The XC "handler" (driver) is the 10M interface on the 
Pro.   It was
written by Marty Gentry just before DECnet's cancellation.

-Steve


Do you have the DECnet kit for RT-11, or is this a version specific
to the Pro-380?

Zane



At 7:41 PM -0400 6/4/10, Steve Davidson wrote:
I have an ULTRIX kit, but no license.   I also have Digital UNIX 
but again no
license.   I do not have DECnet for either - sorry.

I am working on getting a PRO-380 (RT-11) w/DECnet to talk to HECnet.   The
DECNA has died a horrible death but the com port may be a possibility.

-Steve

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| Zane H. Healy                                       | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com                           | OpenVMS Enthusiast                 |
|                                                                   | Classic Computer Collector |
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|         Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,       |
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