[TUHS] Fwd: Re: Unix with TCP/IP for small PDP-11s

[TUHS] Fwd: Re: Unix with TCP/IP for small PDP-11s

[William Pechter]

-----Original Message-----
From: pechter@gmail.com
To: arnold at skeeve.com
Sent: Sat, 20 May 2017 16:41
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix with TCP/IP for small PDP-11s

Missed the reply all on the phone.  Phil Karn had KA9Q in the 80s...  It is mentioned on Wikipedia... Don't know much more.  PPP might be better than slip. 

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: pechter at gmail.com
Sent: Sat, 20 May 2017 16:12
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix with TCP/IP for small PDP-11s

Yes!  Do you want to follow up to the list please?

Thanks,

Arnold

William Pechter <pechter at gmail.com> wrote:

> KA9Q sound right? 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arnold at skeeve.com
> To: imp at bsdimp.com, bqt at update.uu.se
> Cc: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Sent: Sat, 20 May 2017 15:06
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix with TCP/IP for small PDP-11s
>
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > I read the sources to see the TCP/IP support was there (that's the bit
> > about adding Berkeley Sockets). I see nowhere that it's excluded for the
> > non I/D machines, but haven't tried it first hand. I got interested not
> > because of the PDP-11, but because I have an old Rainbow that recently
> > started running Venix (v7-based version) and was trolling around for some
> > way to do TCP/IP to it (though w/o readily available ethernet cards, I'm
> > not sure it is a viable project).
>
> Boy is the memory going.  What was the TCP/IP implementation people
> ran on DOS to do connections over serial lines?  Could that be found
> and revived for such a system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold

[TUHS] KA9Q

[Warren Toomey]

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:42:31PM -0400, William Pechter wrote:
> Missed the reply all on the phone.  Phil Karn had KA9Q in the 80s.

Minnie ran an FTP service on KA9Q on MS-DOS to start with. She had a 30M RLL
drive with a WD8003E NIC. I'm so glad she isn't still doing that :)

	Warren

(yes, off topic, mea culpa)

[TUHS] KA9Q

[Cory Smelosky]

I keep meaning to try similar for SysVR2

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 21, 2017, at 18:15, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:42:31PM -0400, William Pechter wrote:
>> Missed the reply all on the phone.  Phil Karn had KA9Q in the 80s.
> 
> Minnie ran an FTP service on KA9Q on MS-DOS to start with. She had a 30M RLL
> drive with a WD8003E NIC. I'm so glad she isn't still doing that :)
> 
>    Warren
> 
> (yes, off topic, mea culpa)

[TUHS] KA9Q

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 22 May 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:

> Minnie ran an FTP service on KA9Q on MS-DOS to start with. She had a 30M 
> RLL drive with a WD8003E NIC. I'm so glad she isn't still doing that :)

Ahh...  I remember Minnie well; those were the days...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

[TUHS] KA9Q

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 16:00:33 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 May 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> Minnie ran an FTP service on KA9Q on MS-DOS to start with. She had a 30M
>> RLL drive with a WD8003E NIC. I'm so glad she isn't still doing that :)
>
> Ahh...  I remember Minnie well; those were the days...

They still are, for a certain incarnation of minnie.

Greg
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