22 Oct
2008
22 Oct
'08
10:35 a.m.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> wrote:
That matches my impression as well.
There is a DDCMP implementation in there as well.
I wonder if the TLK and LSN programs are compatible with the ones on RSX.
Someone asked about compatibility between phase III and phase IV, which
Paul Koenig answered.
I have another question, though.
As I've read it, phase III nodes can talk with phase II nodes, just as
phase IV can talk with phase III. But can phase IV talk with phase II?
Since DECNET/8 is phase II, this is somewhat interesting...
I doubt I'll have time to look more into this any time soon, but unless
someone else manage to get this working I definitely will try it sooner
or later.
Could anyone put up the files for convenient access with ftp?
Johnny
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:54:04AM -0400, djg at
pdp8.net wrote:
I will poke around in that tomorrow when our sat rises.
That definitely looks like DECNET/8. Fun!
Does
anyone actually have a copy of the DECnet-8 software
I have disk images which seem to be it.
http://www.pdp8online.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=decnet The first two
are from disks which were labeled decnet 1 and decnet 2
Sounds promising.
All the RTS docs I have seen are from dbit.
http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/query.pl?Search=rts
ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/doc/
After looking all day, I finally found the doc file I recently
discovered (most likely from dbit). It's an ASCII file named
'decnet8.doc', internally designated "AA-5184A-TA", and happens
to briefly reference a couple of other DEC docs, "DEC-08-ORTMA",
and "DEC-8E-HMM3A".
The primary doc file describes programs like TLK and LSN and NIP.
TLK and LSN are a line-at-a-time messaging pair. NIP (Network
Information Program) prints network status and diagnostic information.
At first pass, DECNET/8 appears to support local traffic (process-to-
process or terminal-to-terminal) as well as a variety of interfaces
for node-to-node traffic. One list includes the KL8E, KL8J-A, KL8A,
KL8M, DP8E (interprocessor buffer), and DKC8-A (parallel).
So to amend my previous speculations, DECNET/8 appears to provide a
basic messaging utility and user-written applications, but does not
come with any bundled file transfer capabilities.