[HECnet] KLH10 noob questions

[Supratim Sanyal]

 > Hum... The Panda release would be MRCs stuff. Wasn't that for the KS?
 > Maybe I'm misremembering. MRC did play with KLH10 as well, I seem to
 > remember.

Yup - found it at http://panda.trailing-edge.com/

It appears he is not with us any more, sad to have read that. You guys 
must have known him personally.

Anyway, some folks ported it to the Raspberry Pi - Posted by Jordi 
Guillaumes Pons' post is awesome, as is this one I don't know who wrote 
this: http://www.ldx.ca/notes/tops-20-notes.html
> As far as basics of TOPS-20 goes... Wow. That could be a big subject.
> Make sure you have an account with the WHEEL bit set. Then enable the 
> privileged commands (it was either ENABLE or ^E ENABLE). After that, you 
> could go into OPR to start fooling around with operator stuff.
>  From OPR, you can then get into NCP for DECnet stuff, for example.
> 

Awesome - every bit helps; am learning fast! Thanks Johnny.







>    Johnny
> 
>>
>>> But it's a good question if there is any TOPS-20 machine on HECnet 
>>> with guest account. I guess it could be interesting for others to 
>>> just experience what TOPS-20 looks and feels like.
>>> I don't have any myself.
>>>
>>>    Johnny
>>>
>>> On 2019-03-10 15:28, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>>> Starting from zero with both KLH10 and TOPS-20. Newbie questions, 
>>>> surely:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Is there a KLH10 distribution for Linux that supports VDE2? (It 
>>>> appears it was at the least added  to the NetBSD target by Olaf 
>>>> 'Rhialto' Seibert after being reuested by Cory Smelosky, going by 
>>>> https://github.com/PDP-10/klh10/issues/2)
>>>>
>>>> 2) Is it possible in KLH10 to have two network adapters, for 
>>>> example, something like
>>>>
>>>> # DECnet adapter
>>>> devdef ni0 564 ni20 dedic=true ifmeth=vde ifc=/tmp/vde-dnet 
>>>> enaddr=aa:00:04:00:XX:YY
>>>> # IP adapter
>>>> devdef ni1 1500 ni20 dedic=true ifmeth=vde ifc=/tmp/vde-ip 
>>>> enaddr=12:34:56:aa:bb:cc
>>>>
>>>> 3) Are there any KLH10 TOPS-20 systems active on HECnet now on which 
>>>> I could have an account to look around?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Supratim
>>>
>>
>>
> 


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