[Simh] DEC Net for DOS and the product on an emulated PDP-11 OS

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Okay. That's one for me. And both won and lost. Now about that example
of Pathworks-32, where did you find it? Now my steps are to get a
proper PDP-11 emulation up and running, and of course installing an OS
there, and even picking one... Oh my!

More later I think. But okay.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Jordi Guillaumes Pons
<jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
>
>
>
> VMWare Player is available for free, and will allow you to create
> virtual machines without a problem. It's basically the same as
> Workstation without the problems of an evaluation period ending and
> catching you or the user out. Of course trying to get it to properly
> engage on the laptop when running Linux, is a trip to be certain.
>
> Of course I can't go ahead with this idea until I get more feedback
> from the rest of the group.
> ——
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a Windows 98 virtual machine running under VMWare Fusion:
>
> c:\>ver
>
> 4DOS 8,00   (Win98) DOS 7,10
>
> c:\>ncp loop node bitxor
>
> LOOP NODE test started at Wed Nov 08 10:14:40 2017
>
>   Connect complete to node  BITXOR
>   Remote node maximum buffer size for loopback:   184
>
>   Send 1, 46 bytes.
>   Successful send and receive, message  1.
>
> LOOP NODE test finished successfully at Wed Nov 08 10:14:41 2017
>
>
> c:\>
>
>
> It’s not strictly DECNET-DOS; it’s PATHWORKS-32, which includes the DECNET
> stack. I’ve not been able to try the old, “pure” DECNET-DOS because the
> supported LAN cards (DEPCA et all) are not emulated in any VM software I
> know. But this setup works OK:
>
> c:\>nft
>            NFT - Network File Transfer - V6.0.004
> NFT>dir bitxor::
>
> Directory of: bitxor::DU1:[DECNET]
> INFO.TXT;1                  4  22-NOV-12 12:15:25
> INFO.TXT;9                  8  29-DEC-12 01:25:14
> INFO.TXT;10                 9  14-MAR-13 13:05:37
> NFT>
>
> Let’s try a remote FAL access:
>
> [BITXOW]$ dir 7.98::
>
> Directory 7.98::C:[PW32]
>
> API.CNT             API.HLP             ASLAPI.DLL          ASLCZ.DLL
> ASLDE.DLL           ASLFR.DLL           ASLPASS.EXE         ASLUS.DLL
> CHARSETS.DAT        CSM32.DLL           CSM_W3.DLL          DAP32.DLL
> DECIC16.DLL         DECITOT.CNT         DECITOT.DAT         DECITOT.HLP
> DECITOT.TPL         DECLOG.CNT          DECLOG.EXE          DECLOG.HLP
> DECTAL.DLL          DECTNET.DLL         DEINST.EXE          DEINSTAL.DAT
> DEINSTAL.TXT        FAL32.EXE           INDEXFIX.HLP        MANDEC.CNT
> MANDEC.HLP          NCP.EXE             NCPHELP.BIN         NCPTAB.BIN
> NFTW.CNT            NFTW.HLP            NFTW32.EXE          NMAPI32.DLL
> NML32.EXE           NM_MSG.BIN          PW32.CNT            PW32.HLP
> PWASSTCZ.CNT        PWASSTCZ.HLP        PWASSTDE.CNT        PWASSTDE.HLP
> PWASSTFR.CNT        PWASSTFR.HLP        PWASSTUS.CNT        PWASSTUS.GID
> PWASSTUS.HLP        PWCTERM.DLL         PWENT.DAT           PWINACC.DAT
> PWLICLM.CNT         PWLICLM.HLP         PWMSG.CNT           PWMSG.HLP
> PWNODE.DAT          PWOBJ.DAT           PWREADME.TXT        PWS2DNST.EXE
> PWS2INST.EXE        PWSOCK32.DLL        PWTELNT.DLL         SPAWN32.EXE
> UPGRADE.INI         WHATSNEW.CNT        WHATSNEW.HLP        WHATSNEW.TXT
> nft.exe
>
> Total of 69 files.
> [BITXOW]$
>
>
>
>
>
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