From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 01:29:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512052901.GR17946@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399850019.15503.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
Norman Wilson scripsit:
> Certainly the directory entries were different between the two: ODS-1
> used RADIX-50-encoded file names with at most six characters plus an
> at-most-three- character `extension'
Ah, yes, of course.
> (a term which newbies sometimes improperly import into UNIX as well);
To be fair, there are programs, notably "make", which behave as if Unix
had extensions.
> I forget the exact filename rules in VMS, but filenames certainly
> could be longer than six characters.
39 characters of name and 39 characters of extension in ODS-2, no
definite limits (and Unicode to boot)imits in ODS-5. ODS-5 is close to
NTFS.
> I'll spend some time in the next few days going over them and see if I
> can quickly get something workable.
Excellent!
> To speed that up, I taught uucico a new protocol, whereby control
> information still went over a serial line, but data blocks were
> transferred over a chunk of raw shared disk (with appropriate locks,
> of course).
Clever.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
I now introduce Professor Smullyan, who will prove to you that either
he doesn't exist or you don't exist, but you won't know which.
--Melvin Fitting
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-11 23:13 Norman Wilson
2014-05-12 5:29 ` John Cowan [this message]
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2014-05-12 19:10 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-12 20:59 ` SPC
2014-05-12 17:06 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-12 17:20 ` SPC
2014-05-12 19:50 ` John Cowan
2014-05-12 14:49 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 16:16 Norman Wilson
2014-05-11 16:45 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 22:19 ` pechter
2014-05-11 3:26 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 3:13 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 4:20 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 2:06 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 2:31 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-11 2:34 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-11 17:21 ` Clem Cole
2014-05-11 17:24 ` Clem Cole
2014-05-11 18:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-05-11 0:51 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 0:57 ` Larry McVoy
2014-05-11 1:27 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2014-05-11 2:40 ` John Cowan
2014-05-05 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-04 23:54 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-05 1:53 ` John Cowan
2014-05-05 8:10 ` SPC
2014-04-30 2:19 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-03 22:14 ` SPC
2014-05-03 22:20 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-03 22:22 ` Larry McVoy
2014-05-05 13:50 ` Kurt H Maier
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