RE: Questions

["Zane H. Healy" <healyzh@aracnet.com>]

>Hobbyist?  No.  I'll be working at this company for approximate 2 more weeks
>- simply the fact that they are still using these beasts _in production_ is
>a sign I think of worse things to come.  We run our ERP on one of the VAXen
>and the engineers develop code based on an old DEC processor on the other
>VAXen.  The PDP is where our in-house barcoding system is running.

Nothing wrong with using the system in production, on the other hand, there
is a MAJOR problem with using those OS's in production though.  That should
be a nice Y2k nightmare!

>The setup is pretty simple.  The three DEC machines all speak DECnet (the
>VAXen run v4 and I have no clue as to what the PDP runs) over 10Base5

I'm not sure, but I suspect it might be Phase IV, IIRC, RSX-11M+ V3 is the
same age as RSX-11M V4.2, not sure though.  In my case the Node numbers I'm
using is proof I've got Phase IV.

>If we serial connect in through a MUXmaster (MINX-NET) to connect to a
>terminal server, I can connect to any one of the three DEC machines.
>However, if I telnet to my Linux gateway and then issue sethost commands,
>only the two VAXen respond.  _And_ if I telnet to the Linux box and then
>connect to one of the VAXen, I can't even SET HOST to the PDP.  I get a
>prompt but it simply sits there.  No interactivity.

The only other question I can think of would be, if you telnet in to the
VAX from the Linux box, what happens when you then connect to the same VAX
from a terminal and try and SET HOST to the PDP-11?

			Zane
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