Noel wrote
Actually, as an operating system, ITS is far more
interesting (virtual
devices, etc)
Yeah, ITS isn't user (spelled LUSER) friendly, but it sure is neat!
In the past week I was just wondering if anyone has ever written an
"MLDEV" handler for a non-ITS system.
"MLDEV" was the virtual device that made other ITS systems look like
devices (AI: MC: ML: DM:). When a device isn't recognized, ITS
launches a new process (job) connected to the "superior" job (I think
using a "JOBDEV" connection created using the JOB/BOJ pseudo-devices),
running an executable named "@", which looks for an executable (in the
DEVICE directory) that matches the user specified device, and runs
it...
There are "assigned numbers" for mit-ml-dev over UDP and TCP
(ports 83 and 85)!
I did find this:
http://victor.se/bjorn/its/ch11.php
Which simulates the CH11 (unibus) Chaosnet interface (presumably for
the KS10 simulation) under KLH10 and encapsulates chaosnet traffic in
UDP.
And mentions the magic file names involved!