[Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Wed Apr 29 21:44:13 EDT 2015


> From: Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:12:57 -0400

> Rich Alderson <simh at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>>> On 27-Apr-15 14:56, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>> ...This is getting absurd.  Just how many stacks exist?!
>>> BBN had a TENEX stack.  Not sure if DEC's started with it.

I think that line was Tim Litt, in response to Cory's plaintive query.

>> No.

> Funny, I was going to say "yes".  ISTR the user interface was awful (didn't
> use JFNs, so you needed to use special send/recieve calls).  My recall was
> that Kevin Paetzold wrote a wrapper around the BBN code for the TCP: device.

Ahh, yes.  I forgot about the "BBN code"--I was warned away from ever using it
when I first started doing TCP/IP programming, and ignored it ever since.

So I guess my answer should have been "sort of." :-)

Thanks, Phil!

                                                                Rich


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