[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
And so would I. As for getting it work on 64 bit Slackware 14.2 would
be interesting.

Dave ask me off list for what I did get to work there.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:
> 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
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>
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> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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