[HECnet] Public Services over DECnet

[Mark Wickens]

Seasons greetings to all.

I've been lurking on the list for a while and not really involved in
vintage computing at all over the past year or so.
What I will say is that I am in the process of trying to organise another
DEC Legacy Event for 2018 - it will either be in May or November, to be
decided shortly.

To bring my post on topic I can recommend the 'Writing VAX/VMS Applications
using Pascal' by Theo De Klerk if you want an introduction into some of the
VAX/VMS specific features such as ASTs.

I don't have a technical background with DECnet, only as a user. It does
indeed work great. I'm jealous I wasn't involved in DEC itself - Steve
Davidson has some great stories about the scalability of VAX/VMS hardware
and networking infrastructure.

Regards, Mark.

On 30 December 2017 at 19:10, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
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> A SYS$QIO is just a system call used to perform I/O.
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> An AST is an “asynchronous system trap”, otherwise known as an interrupt
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> An event flag is a process synchronisation mechanism.
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> Regards
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> Rob
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> *From:* owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark J. Blair
> *Sent:* 30 December 2017 18:00
> *To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> *Subject:* Re: [HECnet] Public Services over DECnet
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> On Dec 30, 2017, at 06:05, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
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> My experience with OpenVMS was mostly doing SYS$QIOs, ASTs and Event Flags
> controlling factory shop-floor equipment
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> I don't know what SYS$QIOs, ASTs or Event Flags are yet, but controlling
> factory shop floor equipment sounds like my cup of tea!
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> Setting up anonymous file access sounds straightforward. I need to read up
> on access control for launching remote batch jobs.
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> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
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