[HECnet] SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

[Tony Blews]

Ultrix not liking the year 2000 means you need to be preposterous, sadly.
Slightly related: while poking around in the shed looking for a spare kettle lead, I found a shrink-wrapped copy of SCO Unix on 5.25" disks and a copy of the "Unix for VMS Users" book. I've moved house 7 times in the last 20 years. Why do i keep this crap?




On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
That's a UNIX tradition I think, lot of UNIXs I have used (IRIX,
Solaris, NetBSD to name a few) return the 'preposterous value in Time
if Day clock' or similar error if the date wrong. I think it's
triggered if the system date is prior to the kernel's   date :)

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On 28 Jun 2012, at 10:53, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> On 28/06/12 10:31, Tony Blews wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Has anyone had any success emulating Ultrix with DECnet under SimH?
>> I managed to find a copy of 4.0, and the "tape" claimed that it was installing DECnet, but I couldn't find any evidence of it anywhere on the system.
>> I may just be being stupid (this is not unknown).
>>
>> An aside: You've got to love an OS that gives you error messages containing the word "preposterous"!
>>
>> Tony.
> That would be reporting the TOY clock setting then?
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