[Simh] 5 Questions (3 Questions Sire) About RSTS/E and Command Line.

[Brett Bump]

Thanks Johnny,

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> First of all, the HECnet mailing list is restricted to subscribed members 
> only, so you can't post there until you've subscribed.
<snip>

There are 10,189 messages in my HECnet folder, starting on 09/11/2007 and
most recent are your TCP/IP updates on April 30 and September 3rd.  There
is a big gap in my list from 2013 until your announcements, maybe I got
lost in the list along the way.

> Sorry about the loss.
> There are a guest account on both MIM:: and MAGICA::
> MIM:: is an emulated PDP-11/74, while MAGICA:: is a real PDP-11/70. Both are 
> running RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6, and the guest account have name GUEST and password 
> GUEST. They drop you into DCL, so it shouldn't be too hard. They are also 
> accessible from the internet as Mim.Update.UU.SE and Magica.Update.UU.SE, 
> with telnet access.
>
> One difference that might be relevant is that in RSX, when you connect you 
> are not automatically thrown the login prompt. You are at a command prompt in 
> logged out mode, where you can both get help, as well as log in.
>
>> 3.  Does anyone have a current HECnet map, so that said students could
>> .   see how HECnet is set up and navigate a couple of different machines?
>
> As far as I know, there is no current map. There have been a couple of 
> attempts in the past, but it was a while since I last saw any, and they have 
> never been very complete.
> The best "picture" is by going to http://mim.update.uu.se/nodedb, which is 
> served from MIM (obviously) using Datatrieve, and the source of the nodename 
> database, with some additional information. However, one have to be away that 
> many machines in the last is not online most of the time.
>
> To explore a bit more, one can play with NCP and find out which areas are 
> online, and at least some subset of which machines are online. But it becomes 
> a question of knowing how to use NCP, how DECnet works, and some patience.
>
> 	Johnny
>
> -- 
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> _______________________________________________
> Simh mailing list
> Simh at trailing-edge.com
> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
>