22 Jun
2005
22 Jun
'05
12:51 p.m.
Ethernet is another good way; DECnet is available on
Linux.
That assumes a fair amount of software working on the 11 side.
Has anyone written something dumb that could squirt a block-level
mass storage image (dealing with bad blocks..) through a DELUA or
DELQA to a destination at the raw packet level?
I've been thinking of doing a ethernet nub debugger for Qbus
machines that would work that way (which I why I just picked
up a DELQA..)
22 Jun
22 Jun
2:45 p.m.
>>>> "Al" == Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> writes:
> Ethernet is another good way; DECnet is available
on Linux.
Al> That assumes a fair amount of software working on the 11 side.
Indeed.
Al> Has anyone written something dumb that could squirt a block-level
Al> mass storage image (dealing with bad blocks..) through a DELUA or
Al> DELQA to a destination at the raw packet level?
The obvious way to do that would be tftp.
I don't know enough Unix to know if 2.x BSD can boot into some sort of
standalone diskless mode and do tftp. Even if not, a standalone bit
of code that reads raw disk blocks at one end and does tftp writes at
the other wouldn't be a large effort. You could probably find C code
for it; feed it to gcc and make it into a standalone image... :-)
paul
6:16 p.m.
Ethernet is
another good way; DECnet is available on Linux.
That assumes a fair amount of software working on the 11 side.
23 Jun
23 Jun
9:15 a.m.
>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
> > Ethernet is another good way; DECnet is
available on Linux.
>
> That assumes a fair amount of software working on the 11 side.
Zane> Can a PDP-11 running DECnet talk reliably to a Linux box
Zane> running DECnet? It's been probably 5+ years since I played with
Zane> it, but when I checked last, it couldn't. If it can now, that
Zane> could be rather handy.
I've only tried it with RSTS (in E11) and that seemed ok. Mostly I
was running it to do development ("set host" on Linux supporting the
RSTS network terminal protocol). But I'm pretty sure I tried some
other things, like NFT.
paul
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