test-drb June 2005

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by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Your mailbox runneth over. Apologies to the rest of the list. Doc

19 years, 6 months

NEXTstep web browsers

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: NEXTstep web browsers > From: "Witchy" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:40:47 +0100 (BST) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > > >>>for such a modern browser. >> >> How slow is it? I Happen to run firefox on a P166 and also run it on >> a P100 and its ok, slow to start but then fine. > >The slab contains a 25mhz 68040 and mine has a staggering 8mb of RAM. I >think I'm asking too much of it :) That still has to be better than my first 386/16 machine with 4mb running Win3.1 and Netscape! >I'm working on the last versions of OmniWeb but they require me to install >many things from CD which I'm not about to do at half midnight since I've >got to be up in 5 or 6 hours......curse this 'work' thing - why can't we >be paid handsomely for preserving ye olde silicon of yore?! That would be fine with me. Then again my last job was exactly that, keeping 20 desktops (fastest was P166) happy. Allison

19 years, 6 months

Pac-Man turns 25

by news＠computercollector.com

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/06/15/pac.man.25.ap/index.html Lenny Herman, quoted atop this AP story, also published Ralph Baer's recent autobiography. ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Also see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/ *** Tell your friends about the (free!) Computer Collector Newsletter - 740 readers and no spam / Publishes every Monday / Write for us! - Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all - W: http://news.computercollector.com E: news at computercollector.com

19 years, 6 months

FS/FT: Two Xerox 6085 computers

by blairrya＠msu.edu

Due to the size of these and lack of interest on my part, I have two Xerox 6085 computers and some associated bits in need of a new home. http://tinyurl.com/ccm3j has some pictures of this stuff Since these are fairly heavy, they will be pickup only from 48821 (near Lansing, Michigan). Best offer or trade. Most interesting trades to me right now would be IA64 or PPC gear, but I'm open to other things. A fair bit more detailed description of what I have follows. CPUs: Xerox 6085 Hard drive is labelled as "XPIW 2.0" Cards: P/N 140K05980: LPO (printer port) >--- a half-height card 140K05560: IOP (ethernet, floppy, keyboard, serial comm, serial printer) 140K04160: MBP (bus extender port) 140K01000: MEB (no ports on this card, extra memory perhaps?) 140K00460: DCM (display port) Xerox 6085 Hard drive labelled as "Viewpoint 2.0" Cards: P/N 140K05550: PCE (PC emulator card?) \____ these are half-height 140K05980: LPO (printer port) / cards that share a slot 140K24340: IOP-2 (ethernet, floppy, keyboard, comm, printer) 140K24590: MBP-2 (no ports on this card) <blank slot> 140K24580: DCM-2 (display port) Other hardware: 2 Xerox mouse pads 2 mice 1 keyboard 2 floppy enclosures (one with a drive in it, one with just air) 1 extra hard drive tray (from browsing the docs, it looks like you need an ST412/ST506 if you want to replace a drive) These computers do not come with monitors. I do not know if it is possible to easily cook something up to connect standard monitors to them. Documentation: 1 Training and Reference: Xerox Viewpoint 2 packets of loose documentation 1 MS-DOS User's Guide for the 6085 2 Workstation Equipment and Installation 1 Xerox Viewpoint 1.1 GW BASIC by Microsoft 1 Reference: Document Editor Media: VP font disks (around 20 disks) VP Spellchecker 1.1 VP Terminal Emulation of DEC VT100 1.0 VP NetCom 1.1.2 common software VP NetCom 1.1 network install scripts VP PC Emulation 1.1.7 6085 Xerox Viewpoint 1.1.7 (Basic Workstation #1) Xerox PC Emulation Utilities VP 1.1.7 Xerox MS DOS 3.10 Xerox GW Basic 3.10 VP Document Editor 1.1.2 (disks 1-3) VP Local Laser Printing 1.1 VP File Conversion of ASCII documents 1.1 VP File Conversion of Wordstar Documents 1.1 6085 VP Long Document Options VP File Conversion of 860 Documents 1.1 VP Data-Driven Graphics (Bar, Pie, Line) 1.1 VP Local Draft Printing 1.0.1 VP RemoteCom 1.1.2 (disks 1 and 2) -Ryan

19 years, 6 months

PDP11/23 - prompt?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: PDP11/23 - prompt? > From: Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.u-net.com> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:53:41 +0100 (BST) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On Jun 15 2005, 19:25, Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > >> If it is possible that I don't have the original bootstrap - can >anyone >> send it to me via email? > >You may have the original, but if so it's disabled. "two eproms with >green labels and nothing written on them" is unlike any originals I've >seen :-) If you do want originals, go to > http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/DECROMs/ and download 23-339E2 > and 23-340E2. > >> > You need to carefully inventory your boards and determine what you >> > have. >> >> I have: >> - CPU (M8189) >> - RAM (M8067), 128k*18? >> - RAM (8059), same size? >> - Floppy controller M8029 >> - Emulex SC02/C RK06/07 compatible SMD disk controller (for my Ampex >> hard drive) >> - 2 * M8043 (4 serial ports) >> - 1 unknown Plessey interface card, P/No. 701775 (What's that ?) > >I can't find the Plessey list I'd bookmarked so I can't say what that >is :-( > >However, that SC02/C accounts for the "$" boot prompt, and either the >EPROMs on the KDF11 are disabled or have been replaced in order to >support the SC02. DEC didn't support RK06/7 on QBus so none of the >standard bootstrap ROMs support it. The SC02 has its own, however, >although it's very simple, and that's what you're seeing. It will >expect a simple two-letter mnemonic (DM for your emulated RK system) >with an optional unit number (eg "DM", "DM0", or "DM1"). > >Interesting number of serial lines on there. 8 on the DLV11-Js, and >two on the CPU (one of which is the console, as you've clearly >discovered). I'd guess this used to run RSX-11M. Or uRSTS or RT11/TSX, or even RT11 and did data collection. Allison

19 years, 6 months

PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: RE: PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale > From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:02:43 -0400 > To: cctalk at classiccmp.org > >>>>>> "Allison" == Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> writes: > > >>> From what I remember (very blurry now) DEQNAs were known to > >>> corrupt > >> data. That was very obvious on VAXclusters, which is why VMS > >> eventually took them off the supported device list permanently. > >> But it's an issue for any application (except, *maybe*, when > >> running TCP since the TCP layer checksum may help -- or may not, > >> it's not that strong...). That applies just as much for PDP11s. > >> > >> paul > > Allison> No they _could_ corrupt data, not they did all the time. > Allison> The differnce was the error rate was not what DEC wanted for > Allison> transactions. The VAX people put pressure to not have to > Allison> test the data as LAVCs (Local Area VAX Clusters) were > Allison> popular to a point and required a very high level of data > Allison> (code!) integrety. The frequency of the failure was related > Allison> to the traffic level on the local loop. > >"pressure not to have to test the data" -- hm. That's an interesting >way of looking at. The way I would look at it is that ALL DEC network >protocols put the responsibility for data integrity in the network >devices; NONE of them had upper layer checksums the way TCP does. >That's why DEC Ethernet bridges always had end to end CRC. And that's >why DEC insisted on 32 bit CRC for Ethernet -- 16 bit CRC isn't good >enough at those data rates. The expectation (and probably the >expressly stated requirement, though I don't remember for sure) is >that Ethernet NIC devices were required to deliver that level of data >integrity to the host. > >So in fact the QNA was failing to deliver the data integrity that >everyone expect it to deliver. The VAXcluster people were the most >vocal and had the most pull, so they were the ones who actually had >the power to say "we will not accept that device". But plenty of >other people cheered when that happened. Certainly the network >architecture group, responsible for standards, did. > That's about the story. One little bit was that doing a checksum was really a CRC and the code to do that apparently was slow on uVAX. They didn't want the impact of that in the OS driver when hardware could do it far faster. Allison

19 years, 6 months

New Bounties: TI Personal Consultant Plus and M1 Expert Shell ($$$)

by KParker＠workcover.com

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19 years, 6 months

PDP11/23 - prompt?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 15 2005, 19:25, Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > If it is possible that I don't have the original bootstrap - can anyone > send it to me via email? You may have the original, but if so it's disabled. "two eproms with green labels and nothing written on them" is unlike any originals I've seen :-) If you do want originals, go to http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/DECROMs/ and download 23-339E2 and 23-340E2. > > You need to carefully inventory your boards and determine what you > > have. > > I have: > - CPU (M8189) > - RAM (M8067), 128k*18? > - RAM (8059), same size? > - Floppy controller M8029 > - Emulex SC02/C RK06/07 compatible SMD disk controller (for my Ampex > hard drive) > - 2 * M8043 (4 serial ports) > - 1 unknown Plessey interface card, P/No. 701775 (What's that ?) I can't find the Plessey list I'd bookmarked so I can't say what that is :-( However, that SC02/C accounts for the "$" boot prompt, and either the EPROMs on the KDF11 are disabled or have been replaced in order to support the SC02. DEC didn't support RK06/7 on QBus so none of the standard bootstrap ROMs support it. The SC02 has its own, however, although it's very simple, and that's what you're seeing. It will expect a simple two-letter mnemonic (DM for your emulated RK system) with an optional unit number (eg "DM", "DM0", or "DM1"). Interesting number of serial lines on there. 8 on the DLV11-Js, and two on the CPU (one of which is the console, as you've clearly discovered). I'd guess this used to run RSX-11M. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

19 years, 6 months

PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale > From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:56:28 -0500 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On 6/15/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote: >> No they _could_ corrupt data, not they did all the time... >> The frequency of the failure was related to the traffic level on the local loop. > >So then, in the modern era, putting a DEQNA on its own switch port >(i.e. - a tiny collision domain) should increase data reliability? Wouldn't hurt. I have a few Qbus boxen here only one has a DELQA, the rest are DEQNAs most rev-E and a few rev-J. They work. I've run a LAVC under VMS5.4 using them along with a few 3100s and nothing ever spit up or died. Would I rather a DELQA, yes, but I'd not refuse a working DEQNA. Allison

19 years, 6 months

Registry for terminal DA responses?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote: > Uhh, registry? Yeah, right. Well, the International Standard document clearly calls for one. It says "a register to be established", though, and I guess that has never been done. > You can start your own registry, I guess. I'm willing. But then I would need ISO to appoint me as the registrar. Hmm, maybe I should give this a serious thought. Any idea whom to approach? After all, the standard calls for a registry and one does not exist. Similarly to how ISO had appointed ECMA as the registrar for ISO 2022 escape sequences (now it's some other organisation in Japan), IFCTF could maintain the registry for DA codes. > If there was one, it was at > DEC and only held the codes used by terminals that DEC produced. All DEC DA responses have the 3/15 private marker after the CSI, indicating that all following parameters are private and have no global significance. ISO clearly intended, on the other hand, to have a global registry. If you have a code assigned from the global registry, you can send it in responses without a private marker. No one else can then legitimately return the same response, and anyone receiving that response would have every right to assume it's your product. Private parameters (what DEC used) do not guarantee interoperability: vendor A can define ?1 to identify one of its products, but another vendor B would have every right to define ?1 to identify one of *its* products. > You do realize, there were terminals that weren't VT100 compatible (at > least in their native mode), like Wyse 50/60 terminals, ADM 3/5s, IBM > 3151s, Televideo 925s, ... They didn't do the "CSI c" command; they > might have had a "DA" method, but I'm doubtful it was the same as what > DEC did. DA (CSI c) is not a DECism, it's a feature of the International Standard ISO 6429. Yes, of course there are terminals that don't care about ISO 6429 and implement their own completely different escape/control/whatever sequences, but they are not relevant to this discussion. I'm talking about the standard mechanism for identifying a particular implementation of ISO 6429 among all others in the Universe. > Any reason you don't want to use the (so-called) "ANSI" vt-100 type > sequences or those from, say, a vt525, for your 'termainal application'? The product I'm designing follows ISO 6429, which is the successor to ANSI X3.64 that you are referring to. VT100 is one implementation of the standard, mine will be another. DEC is one manufacturer, HEC is another. My implementation of the standard will be very close to DEC's, but not identical. I'm deliberately not writing an exact VTxxx emulator since I want to do a few things differently. The main area of difference is character set handling. I have made a proper implementation of ISO 2022, whereas DEC has made some horrible kludges apparently to make it "user- friendly" in their perverted sense. I'm talking about the horrible mess with multinational vs. national modes, keyboard variants and typewriter vs. data processing keys, kludges that have no place in an ISO 2022 terminal. MS

19 years, 6 months

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