[HECnet] Another TOPS-10 DECnet problem

Supratim Sanyal supratim at riseup.net
Thu Nov 11 16:26:35 PST 2021


On 11/11/21 7:21 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:

> Really?  I'll have to finish looking into that.
>
Really! :)

And, to make things more interesting, I have a little AppleTalk Phase-2 
network going with Tomas over the same GRE tunnel that carries DECnet 
traffic between my and his areas :)


> I had wanted to dust off the IBMSPL code (which I had hacked a lot at 
> Columbia) and wire it into HNET, but I didn't finish the review to 
> understand at what level I would need to wire the IP based protocols 
> in to replace (or simulate) the DN60.
>
> I'm just too deep into too many rabbit holes...
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On 11/11/21 6:55 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>
>> Tim Stark and I have multiple VAXen talking DECnet to HECnet and NJE 
>> to HNET (the global hobbyist Bitnet-II network). DNANJE and TCPNJE 
>> work great using JNET from Wingra. A few VMS and Linux nodes show up 
>> on both lists: http://moshix.dynu.net/
>>
>> It is kind of cool to receive a file over NJE and copy it to another 
>> host over DECnet :)
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> On 11/11/21 6:38 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>>
>>> I was also one of the few that would move between DEC and IBM, which 
>>> is quite a paradigm shift if you've ever had to stare a 3270 in the 
>>> face after EMACS.
>>
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