[Simh] {Spam?} Re: [SimH] Networking support

Anders Magnusson ragge at ludd.ltu.se
Sun Mar 13 05:22:16 EDT 2016


Hi Bruce!

The drawing is 107-00205401/05.
Paper label has "D 2290   P AA    A     R     T 5 22197    R 18" on it.

I have two of these cards; they were placed in my N800 cabinet but I 
doubt they have been used in that machine.  There were no backplane 
cabling for them.

-- R

Den 2016-03-12 kl. 19:36, skrev Bruce Ray:
> Yes.
>
> I assume you are referring to the DG MV (32-bit) systems - there were 
> several DG E'net controllers for the MVs.  What is the board's  005- 
> model number or the name etched by the board's left extractor handle?
>
>
> Bruce
>
> On 3/12/2016 10:25 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>> Den 2016-03-12 kl. 17:45, skrev Clem Cole:
>>> FYI:  CDC and Cray's often used HyperChannel adapters; but I suspect
>>> have long lost the info on it (very funky SW interface).  Plus I doubt
>>> I still have the code we developed for it (the HyperChannel was the
>>> other side of the Tektronix TCP/IP for VMS implementation we did in
>>> the late 1970's).  My memory is that we dedicated a PP to talking to
>>> NOS, so there was very little OS code.    We spliced it into the RJE
>>> system and never did much beyond FTP services for it; when I worked on
>>> it.   I still talk with the guy that did the the PP work for NOS (Stan
>>> Smith whom I will ask).   The Cray port was done by the NCAR guys
>>> working with our CDC and VMS code; but that was after I was involved
>>> in the work.
>>>
>>> BTW: @ LCC we did some work with DG on their UNIX port; I somehow seem
>>> to remember that the Eclipse family used the original AMD ethernet
>>> chip set on their network adapter.
>> DG-UX or MV/UX?
>> The DG ethernet card has a 82586 on board.  I have two of those cards,
>> but unfortunately no programming specs. Anyone that has?
>>
>> -- Ragge
>>
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