[HECnet] TOPS-10 D-Day, DECnet failure on November 9th is less than six days away

[Johnny Billquist]

There are actually a number of RSX systems up and running, even though I 
might be the only one who is doing a lot of development on one.

There are usually a couple of RSTS/E systems online as well. A few more 
Tops-20 systems, even though they are not many either.

A lot of VMS, obviously, but not that much noise from that crowd. :-)

A few Ultrix machine. A few very random, odd things...

And then more and more PyDECnet.

   Johnny

On 2021-11-06 00:59, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> I would hate to say "none", but I fear this is really close enough to 
> the truth as makes no difference...  It seems that only the VMS people 
> are online and Johnny, who keeps RSX up.
> 
> Anytime I've checked a Tops-10 system, I've been unable to connect, but 
> I don't do that a lot.
> 
> It's little different with Tops-20 systems, although a few are online 
> (SOL:: is a notable example) I used to use Supratim's TWENEX:: (31.29) 
> machine to try to do regression tests, but this was fruitless.  His host 
> table is years out of date, so I only show up as a number which can not 
> be entered as a node name.  And he has bugs and things I fixed aeons ago.
> 
> He never responds to any query and now TWENEX:: is seldom up.  Well, let 
> me rephrase that, it hasn't been up when I've checked, but I stopped 
> doing that and gave up on him.
> 
> That's what I'm building TERZO:: for, regression tests.
> 
> I'll bet 28NH:: has some of that information; it looks like it does.
> 
> On 11/5/21 7:44 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> > what are you all doing, anyhow?
>>
>> I suspect nobody actually uses their TOPS-10 machines much.  Of those 
>> on your HECnet list, how many are actually running now?
>>
>> Bob
>>

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