[HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 and OpenVMS via DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On 29 Oct 2012, at 14:03, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

Another stupid question: How do i set the DECNET address?

I think you might need to reinstall DECnet, the tape is up on that ftp site and can be installed the same way as DECmail.


Sampsa


On 29 Oct 2012, at 19:42, Sampsa Laine wrote:

Stupid question, where can I find said tape?

Sampsa


On 29 Oct 2012, at 19:38, Cory Smelosky wrote:


On 29 Oct 2012, at 13:26, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

DECmail would rock - how hard is it to install?

Not very hard at all! 
1). grab tape
2). attach tape (read the .ini)
3). log in!
4). @[0,1]instal layered_products
5). choose decmail
6). Press return until it completes.

No idea how to configure it though, but considering the lack of TCP/IP i'd assume it's pretty much just for users of the system it's installed on, might have DECnet bits though.


I know NOTHING about RSTS btw..

I barely know anything about RSTS myself ;). I'm trying to learn my way around, though.


Sampsa


On 29 Oct 2012, at 19:01, Cory Smelosky wrote:


On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:


On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

So any chance of uploading this image anywhere?

If you want to rebuild your own monitor, give me a couple minutes to upload a new image. If you just want an install to play with, use http://gewt.net/rsts.7z with a pass for 1,2 of "epicfail"

http://gewt.net/rsts-proper.7z 1,2 still has a pass of epicfail and I believe there's also 99,98 with a password of testing. This doesn't have DECmail installed though. A config for simh is included, edit it to suit your needs. I'm not amazing at this or I'd add a nice README and a shiny barely-valid-HTML webpage that looks like it came from 1993 about it.



Sampsa


On 28 Oct 2012, at 15:48, Sampsa Laine wrote:


On 27 Oct 2012, at 21:19, Cory Smelosky wrote:


On Oct 27, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 10/27/2012 03:57 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
That reminds me, if someone has a turnkey RSX or RSTS box around
(that I could just plug in to SIMH and play with), ideally with
DECNET support, please let me know.

If you can't find one, I can make a RSTS image up for you. (I've never
done DECnet under RSX, so that'd take me awhile to figure out)

Which version of RSTS? I can give my disk image for my install of 10.1 if anyone wants to try and figure out what I did wrong or wants to make it in to a turnkey install   it's pretty basic as i'm new to RSTS. (it has DECmail though)


I'm cool with RSTS - whatever version is fine.

Sampsa

PS: I will plague people with noob questions..