[HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 and OpenVMS via DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On 29 Oct 2012, at 13:42, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

Stupid question, where can I find said tape?

ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rsts_freeware/ or similar, might not be that exact directory.


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..