[HECnet] Oldest VAX/VMS for VAX-11/730 on HECNET

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Dec 9, 2021, at 4:09 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> I suspect you might get even 3.5 working. But you need to go into NCP and change a thing.
> 
> At least with RSX, you have a parameter that tells which is the highest node number it should handle, and if you see, or configure, a number higher than that, you'll get some kind of error similar to what you have described above.
> 
> In RSX, this is the EXECUTOR parameter MAXIMUM ADDRESS. Check if you don't have that one, and what it's set to in 3.5, 3.7 and 4.0.
> You might also want to check for MAXIMUM AREA while you're at it...


That was the clue I needed. Thank you!


> $ mc ncp
> NCP>DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM ADDRESS 1023
> NCP>EXIT

I think I didn't see MAXIMUM AREA in 3.7, but it appears in NCP later on.


> Username: SYSTEM
> Password: 
>         Welcome to VAX/VMS version V3.7
> $ @startnet
> %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0001000E
> %OPCOM,  9-DEC-2021 11:59:04.72, message from user DECNET      
> DECnet starting
> %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0001000C
> $ 
> %OPCOM,  9-DEC-2021 11:59:08.44, message from user DECNET      
> DECnet event 4.10, circuit up
> From node 2.616 (PUG),  9-DEC-2021 11:59:06.44
> Circuit UNA-0
> 
> $ 
> %OPCOM,  9-DEC-2021 11:59:08.44, message from user DECNET      
> DECnet event 4.15, adjacency up
> From node 2.616 (PUG),  9-DEC-2021 11:59:06.73
> Circuit UNA-0, Adjacent node = 2.698


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