[HECnet] MONK RIP

[Steve Davidson]

Zane,

What you know as STRGTE:: is actually a P3, 667Mhz running NetBSD 4.0.   It is running Johnny's HECnet bridge, Postfix, BIND, ntp (as a server), and SIMH.   The SIMH is of course emulating a VAXstation 3900, with 64MB memory, (8) RA90's, (2) RR40's, and (4) terminals (via telnet).   The system is also running Multinet.   

The system is set up to make all of HECnet available from the outside (for mail anyway) under a single domain (declab.net) - more info about this coming shortly.

It is actually quite fast!   Oh, and   btw this is all done with only 128MB of physical memory.   Surely a Linux system should be able to run a SIMH instance.

You are more than welcome to login and try it out for yourself.   Just let me know, and I will create an account for you to play around with.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Tue 3/9/2010 10:46
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] MONK RIP

I think Steve Davidson is running SIMH on some pretty old hardware, I   
think a P3 might be able to pull it off.

It won't be blazingly fast of course...

Sampsa


On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:44, Zane H. Healy wrote:

The UNIX box that is still running is a Pentium III that is close to   
10 years old, and honestly probably on its last legs.   I don't think   
it could handle a VAX instance.   I've considered this, and if I do   
it, it will be using a new Intel Atom board, but I have my doubts on   
the ability of that class board to handle the load of a SIMH instance.

Zane



At 9:49 AM +0000 3/9/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box...

Sampsa

On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote:

At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply.   
Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK   
was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding   
so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive   
arrays.

While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover   
data   (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be   
leaving it running 24x7 anymore.   I was already thinking about   
shutting down my servers to save power.

Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm   
preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to   
my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house- 
hunting.   I really don't have time to keep my own servers running   
anymore.

Zane



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| Zane H. Healy                                       | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary)       | OpenVMS Enthusiast                 |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet)                     | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
|         Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,       |
|                   PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.                 |
|                               http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/                             |


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| Zane H. Healy                                       | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com                           | OpenVMS Enthusiast                 |
|                                                                   | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
|         Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,       |
|                   PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.                 |
|                               http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/                             |