[HECnet] Some SIMH weirdness on Raspbian

[Paul Koning]

Nor is it true in Unix, since it has that ugly mess of "address family".  DECnet got this right...

	paul

> On Dec 8, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
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> It’s easy - the underlying OS does all the hard work for you. 
> 
> Oh wait...
> 
> ;)
> 
> Ian
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 8, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> Nor does RSX. And yes, I have been pondering that as well. It might happen some day, but it's not that trivial... :-)
>> 
>> Johnny
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>>> On 2019-12-08 19:44, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> FWIW: since the topic right now is IPv6, or at least related to it... currently pydecnet does not handle ipv6 yet.  I'm thinking about adding that.
>>>   paul
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2019, at 12:09 PM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Gregg,
>>>> 
>>>> PyDecnet is Paul Koning's (he's on this list) DECnet router written entirely in Python. Here's his response he posted to this last a while back when I expressed curiosity:
>>>> 
>>>>> There are some, yes.  You can find the code and documentation -- admittedly somewhat brief -- on my Subversion server at svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/pydecnet/trunk/pydecnet .
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Very briefly, it's a DECnet implementation implemented entirely in Python 3, the full stack (including some applications).  Phase IV, but unlike others it will talk to Phase II nodes.  For that matter, it can be run as a Phase >> III or Phase II node if you like.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> There currently isn't a formal kit; you can install it from the Subversion working directory, or run it directly in there if you like.  See doc/*.txt for details.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Feel free to email me with questions, and of course any bug reports.
>>>> 
>>>> I made a small modification to make it work better with the Ethernet TAP devices debian Linux offers.
>>>> 
>>>> Keith
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine
>>>> Sent: 08 December 2019 01:56
>>>> To: Hecnet <hecnet at update.uu.se>
>>>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Some SIMH weirdness on Raspbian
>>>> 
>>>> Hello!
>>>> Keith can you elaborate on what "pydecnet" is? Google searching for me is not working because the search engine keeps trying to change my spelling to what it thinks it is. Johnny as it happens I am no expert on the way Dec hardware even simulated can communicate, but I am almost one on how Linux does do that. And you are indeed right.
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>>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>>>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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>> -- 
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                 ||  on a psychedelic trip
>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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