[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
It is still an interesting concept. And like Zane, I've been
interested in finding that variety of DECnet since this group went
live.

As for building TME what is the recommended build environment? I tried
it once on Slackware64 14.0 and then on the same Linux distribution
but release 14.1 and also 14.2, but it refused to build and cited an
interesting litany of issues. (Naturally I didn't keep a record of any
of them.)

For me, getting that emulator to work would be yet another interesting
application for emulating older hardware. And of course Solaris (Or
SunOS) on 68K.
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Jeffrey H. Johnson <jhj at trnsz.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
>>
>> Consider this, this very likely ran on 68k based Sun hardware, it may have run on early Sun-4 systems.  This is in the SunOS 3.x timeframe, the question is, was it past that timeframe.
>
> If such an old version existed, it would give me an excuse to get 'tme' running at least. Also, 1986 would place the software well after Phase IV/IV+ and before Phase V's rollout, so I imagine if it could be located it would be quite interoperable, even if it had to be used on SunOS 3. That seems to be historically more interesting than using SunOS 4.
>
>> Something else of interest in that announcement is the mention of a VT100 emulator for Sun.
>
> Yes. However, I imagine that software is quite obscure at this point. X11 was released in 1987, and xterm was available with it. While I'm not a Sun history buff, and don't know when Sun switched to X11 from OpenWindows (did they ever use NeWS?), regardless, this seems to indicate that software likely had a very short period of viability and likely wasn't widely distributed.
>
>> My fear is that this is like DECnet/RT (the RT-11 version).  As far as I can tell, no one has a copy of that (I’ve been looking for 20 years).
>
> :(
>
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