[HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-11-09 11:18, Mark Wickens wrote:
> Johnny
>
> What tool(s) do you use to generate your documentation?

BONNER LAB RUNOFF on RSX. I think I've even made it available with a few 
fixes I did for it. Should be at ftp.update.uu.se, and also at MIM::DU:[RNO]

	Johnny

>
> Regards, Mark
>
> On 8 November 2015 at 12:59, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     Argh. For anyone who have downloaded the release I cut yesterday -
>     please get the new version (that goes for everyone else as well).
>
>     I just discovered and fixed an obscure bug that can crash the
>     system. It's something that happens under very specific
>     circumstances, and is uncommon, but if you have lots of TCP
>     connections coming and going, you'll hit it sooner or later.
>
>     As usual, the distribution is available from:
>     ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
>     ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
>     ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
>
>     The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
>     http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
>
>              Johnny
>
>     On 2015-11-07 17:02, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>         Well, about two weeks since my last announcement, but I figured
>         I should
>         do another one.
>
>         I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage
>         everyone to
>         update to this latest release.
>
>         A short list of changes since my last release:
>
>         Documentation:
>         . I've worked some on the documentation, and filled out some
>         parts that
>         were previously TBD.
>
>         TCP:
>         . Performance improvements. In general, I've improved file transfer
>         performance by about 20% by tuning when TCP ACK messages as well as
>         window updates are sent. On links where packets are dropped from
>         time to
>         time, the performance improvements can be significantly higher.
>         . Bugfix. Retry counter were incorrectly reset under some
>         circumstances.
>         . Bugfix. TCP did not resend an ACK if the same data was
>         received twice.
>         . Bugfix. TCP sockets could erronously be left in a closed state
>         with
>              no task. However, looking at the socket, it looked like a
>         task was
>              associated.
>
>         FTP:
>         . Size calculation for stream type files in RSX mode was done
>         incorrectly.
>
>         Applications:
>         . I've included a precompiled version of PCL.TSK
>
>         As usual, the distribution is available from:
>         ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
>         ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
>         ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
>
>         The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
>         http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
>
>                  Johnny
>
>
>
>     --
>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                        ||  on a psychedelic trip
>     email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>             ||
>     Reading murder books
>     pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
>     --
>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                        ||  on a psychedelic trip
>     email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>             ||
>     Reading murder books
>     pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
>