Way back when, I asked on the list about null modems for the DEC Pro which I
planned to use for experiments with SLIP. PRO/VENIX doesn't have any network
capability other than UUCP, and it doesn't seem like anything else supports the
Ethernet CTI card other than P/OS (of course) and the unofficial 2.9BSD, but I
like PRO/VENIX V2.0 better because it's a real System V.
Anyway, here's a simple implementation with four clients (ping, DNS, NTP and
command-reply TCP) which runs over the printer port at the standard 4800bps.
That keeps the main serial port free as a second terminal and for Kermit.
Getting it to work with both the PRO/VENIX Rev. 2.0 and V2.0 compilers (i.e.,
older-than-V7 and System V respectively) was interesting.
Unfortunately Xhomer's serial port emulation isn't good enough for this yet;
many dropped bytes. It works fine with my real DEC Pro 380.
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/lets-give-provenix-barely-adequate-pre.…
https://github.com/classilla/bass
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