[HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

There is SLIP... ;-)
I have never tried the SLIP code, but I did write it. It could be an 
interesting test... (I also have the skeleton of PPP, but I have not 
completed that one...)

But anything on a beaglebone or whatever will not really help. You need 
some kind of interface on the PDP-11 side either way. Ethernet is the 
obvious first choice, but serial lines is (I guess) the next best thing.
Serial DECnet or serial IP don't make much difference, except I think 
you'd find serial IP more useful in the long run. Once you have even 
that, you could run DECnet over IP if you wanted to join in a DECnet sense.

   Johnny

On 2020-10-25 18:24, Chris Zach wrote:
> I *really* need to find a DEQNA and get tcp/ip running on my 11/83. This 
> system is feeling lonely. Unless.... Is there a Decnet to TCP/IP 
> beaglebone code out there that I could use to peer up to MAGICA?
> 
> CZ
> 
> On 10/24/2020 1:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> RPM is a packet manager for RSX (it has nothing to do with the Red Hat
>> Packet Manager, except the name).
>>
>> I don't post regularly about this software, nor about updates to the
>> list of available packages, but enough work have been done, and a long
>> enough time have passed since the initial announcement that an update
>> can be useful for various people.
>>
>>
>> Since the initial release of RPM, a lot of improvements have been done
>> to it, and a lot of packages have been updated or added. For anyone
>> running RSX-11M-PLUS, I would really recommend installing RPM, and using
>> it to get the latest version of various software.
>>
>> For information on how to install and use it, see
>> http://mim.update.uu.se/rpm.htm
>>
>>
>> The current list of packages:
>>
>> In  Pkg        Ver     Desc
>>    --  ---        ---     ----
>>        RPM        Y0.27   The RSX Packet Manager
>>        MKE        V1.31   The Unix-like make tool
>>        TCPIP      V2.5    TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS
>>        C          000012  PDP-11 C compiler
>>        CRTL       V1.2    PDP-11 C runtime library
>>        F77        T5.4    FORTRAN-77 compiler
>>        F77RTL     V5.4    FORTRAN-77 runtime library
>>        BP2        V2.7C   BASIC+2 compiler and interactive environment
>>        BP2RTL     V2.7C   BASIC-PLUS-2 runtime library
>>        C81        V3.1    COBOL-81 compiler
>>        C81RTL     V3.1    COBOL-81 runtime library
>>        BCPL       BCPL04  The DECUS BCPL compiler
>>        FORTH      V1.3.3  FORTH language for RSX-11M-PLUS
>>        SORT       V3.0    SORT/MERGE for RSX
>>        DBG        T2.2.1  PDP-11 Symbolic Debugger
>>        DTR        V03.03  DATATRIEVE-11 for RSX
>>        FMS        V02.2   FMS-11 for RSX
>>        NEMA       Y0.32   The small portable Emacs-compatible editor
>>        TECO       V40.00  The Text Editor and COrrector (and language)
>>        TIN        V1.7    Task INformation tool
>>        ATT        V01     File attribute manipulation tool
>>        GREP       000007  Tool to search through text files
>>        MORE       2.17    Interactive text file viewer (VTL)
>>        NTAIL      X0.2    Text file tail printout
>>        ERR        X0.2    Display error messages based on codes
>>        USH        X0.2    Unix shell like pipes
>>        KERMIT     T3.63   The KERMIT file transfer program
>>        RNO        2000.1  The BONNER Lab RUNOFF document processor
>>        SRD        6.9.2   The DECUS directory maintenance tool
>>        COD        V1.5    File encoder/decoder
>>        SWATCH     V01.01  Stop watch for commands
>>        SYM        V1.1    Examine symbols in OBJ and STB files
>>        VTL        V01.0   Virtual Terminal Log utility
>>        ORCAM      V01.7   Object file disassembler
>>        DOB        V2.2    Object file disassembler
>>        CLEACD     V7.12   The Command Line Editor ACD
>>        CCL        V9.3    User configurable Command Line Interpreter
>>        CURSES     X0.1    A Unix compatible curses library for PDP-11 C
>>        ZEMU       V1.24   The Z-machine emulator
>>        DUNGEON    V3.2C   The classic dungeon
>>        ADVENT     03MAR   The classic adventure game
>>        MILLE      V1.5    The Mille Bournes card game
>>
>>
>> Yes, this now includes various layered software from DEC, prebuilt for
>> M+ I/D systems. I have lots of more software that I intend to add, but
>> this is already starting to become a significant list.
>>
>>     Johnny
>>

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