5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
9:55 a.m.
>>>> "Johnny" == Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)update.uu.se> writes:
Johnny> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 Paul Koning <pkoning(a)equallogic.com>
Johnny> wrote:
> 1. DECnet/E only supports the "old"
network terminal protocol,
> which is object 21. The other one is "CTERM" which is implemented
> by VMS and one or two other operating systems, but not DECnet/E.
> In fact, I think none of the PDP11s do it; it's way too complex.
Johnny> RSX definitely implements CTERM. I think it's object 23.
Object 23 is the old RMTERM protocol. CTERM is 42.
> 2. DECnet/E works fine on E11. It's been a
while since I've tried
> that but I did use it, under Linux that is. I was using the "tap"
> pseudo-ethernet to debug DECnet/Linux against DECnet/E...
>
> FWIW, there's an implementation of the "old" network terminal
> protocol in the DECnet/Linux kit; with some hacking you can
> probably port that and use it to talk to DECnet/E that way.
Johnny> The DECnet/Linux implementation is so bad that I'd say it's
Johnny> unusable. (Atleast when I tested to/from an RSX system.)
Unuseable for what? I didn't use it with RSX, but it works fine with
RSTS. That include rmterm... (I added that for RSTS and TOPS/20 but
not for RSX; maybe someone else has by now, if not I expect volunteers
would be welcomed...)
paul