[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

[Mark Abene]

The TME emulator works fine on Ubuntu with very minor massaging. I don't
recall having to do anything extremely out of the ordinary.
For me the fun was in emulating a Sun 3/80 I used to have. If you like, I
can dig it up my TME install. Haven't used it in a while.

-Mark



On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> 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).
> >
> > :(
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey H. Johnson
> > jhj at trnsz.com
> > https://ban.ai/multics
>
> And this message is not being sponsored by the big cats bowling league.
>
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