5 Mar
2023
5 Mar
'23
3:40 p.m.
Holy smokes. Poking around on these disk images it looks like these
system have a FULL DECNET FILE SERVER as well. I'm guessing it would
allow endpoints to get install files off a central Pro/350. Or maybe
allow users to share files, do what Netware did, that sort of thing.
Who know what else I can do with that.....
This thing could do a lot more with 3.2 than it could with 2.0 software.
Very interesting...
CZ
On 3/5/2023 10:24 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
On the Pro,
the software sees a fairly traditional CSR set with disk
address registers (sector and track). So an assumption like the one
you worry about would be in the controller, not the OS. If it works
at all then that would say the controller doesn't make that assumption.
Yup, things just seem to work. I even was able to boot the diagnostics
disk from virtual floppy, you just have to remember which Gotek is DZ1:
and which is DZ2: and wait a few seconds after switching for the Gotek's
to "settle down" when swapping images.
But it works, my DECNA passes all diagnostics, and it looks like it also
passes the loopback tests for DECNET 3.2.
Now to figure out how the TMS software works.... :-)
CZ