[HECnet] Windows 10 DECnet?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-07-15 12:52, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> My experience with latd in Linux is that it sucks. It sortof works if
>> you are lucky, but there are problems in it, which makes it undesirable
>> to use with RSX at least.
> 
> My experience is that for connecting to a Tops-[12]0 system it works,
> even if the thing, as you say, sucks in several ways.  Considering
> myself lucky then.

There is some protocol bug in Linux latd. And unfortunately, that bug in 
turn triggers a bug in RSX LAT, so that not only are connections 
dropped, but memory is lost on the RSX side. So after a while, the 
system becomes unusable.

latd was developed by people just trying to reverse engineer LAT by 
looking at traffic between a VMS host and a DECserver. And the code is 
an ugly C++ hack. Someone should rewrite it. Especially as the protocol 
specs are now available.
I have been thinking about it, but have not had any time to even do a 
serious attempt.

   Johnny

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