[Simh] [HECnet] TOPS-20 V4.1 DECnet

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Fri May 2 13:31:47 EDT 2014


On Fri, 2 May 2014, Peter Lothberg wrote:

>> Looks like there's no DMC on the PDP-10, no DMC OR KDP on the MicroVAX,
>> and no KDP on the VAX780.
>>
>> However, the PDP-11 has the DUP.  Looks like I can use that as the
>> go-between.
>
>
> MRC with the help of Stu Grosman did a phase 4 port to KS tops20. It
> uses teh KMC/DUP, but has a limitation, as there was not enough memory
> left, all buffers had to be in one page, the decnet MTU is not 576 but
> 376 or something like that. This does not matter unless you have two
> interfaces and try to be a transit node. (it can be routein-iv).
>

Any idea where I can find this Phase IV port?

> It speaks DDCMP on the CYNC interface, so anything that speaks DDCMP
> can talk to it, DUP,DQ, DMC DMR ...
>
> -P
>

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