[HECnet] TOPS-10 KS10 Ethernet Monitor

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Apr 26, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> >
> > P.S.  Cory - I'd love to see a DECnet compatible TOPS10 that runs on
> > simh, and the DEUNA seems like the only practical way to accomplish
> > that.  The DUP/DMR emulation is interesting, but not that useful since
> > you need yet another 11/780 simulation for it to talk to!
> 
> Given that it’s DDCMP, it should work with any DDCMP device you can
> connect it to.  Connecting SIMH to a sync serial port may be difficult (hard to
> find those) but async DDCMP is essentially the same and should work.  That
> means RSX or various routers or even (in theory, depending on digging up
> some undocumented details) RSTS/E V10.

FYI.  The simh 'sync' devices (DMC/DMR, DUP, KDP) can all interoperate.  The system at the other end of any 'sync' line can be anywhere the host system can reach via IPv4 or IPv6.  Transport can be TCP or UDP.

Simh simulators using the KDP and DUP run with simulated host based DDCMP implementations and the DMC/DMR has imbedded DDCMP implementation.  Rob Jarratt has done some testing running these into his host based DECnet router.

Any of these 'should' be able to connect to a simh system which speaks Async DDCMP over a serial line (DZ or VH) as well.  

- Mark