VAX 6000-460 booting saga continues ...

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Sun Dec 30 07:48:07 2001

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Hans H?bner wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > No, Ultrix is SMP.
>
> Thanks for the update.

We've run it on a 6000-440 for a couple of years here. Worked just
fine. This with Ultrix 4.4. We never upgraded to 4.5. But since the
hardware broke down six months ago, we rolled out 8650 back in. :-)
We'll probably start switching to NetBSD on it soon though.

Only wished that the CI was supported. Does anybody around have
programming documentation for CI and HSC controllers?

> > It's the chicken and egg... How to get TCP/IP when you need TCP/IP to get
> > it... :-)
>
> I'd use Kermit for that, and in fact this is what Gunther currently does. I
> see no reason why Kermit should not be good enough for a bunch of savesets.
> And then there is DECNET for Linux, if everything else fails (but why should
> it?).

KERMIT works, but is a bit slow. That's the only objection I have.

        Johnny

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