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

[Chris Berry]

Well I have 35-40 DECnet systems up and running almost all the time - a mix of VMS, RSX, RSTS, U*IX, TOPS and I would love to get them connected up to HECnet ...

I did try about a year ago, but we didn't manage to move things forward due to pressures of work etc...

Chris
declab.uk


On 06/11/2021, 08:37, "Johnny Billquist" <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

    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 table is years out of date, so I only show up as a number which can not 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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