4 Jul
2020
4 Jul
'20
3:26 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:54 PM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(if this is better suited for COFF, that'd be
fine too)
I've been trying to set up UUCP on my V7 system and its raspberry Pi
host. This plus the "s" editor (already working) are really all that's
needed to make this something pretty close to a daily driver, if all I
wanted to do was write text files (which in some sense is all my job _is_,
but to be fair I get a much more immediate feedback loop in my current
environment).
I was following
https://github.com/jwbrase/pdp11-tools/blob/master/howtos/V7%20UUCP%20Insta…
more or less--I had already rebuilt v7 with the DZ terminal driver and was
using it for interactive sessions (albeit, before I started trying to get
UUCP running, with 7-bit line discipline--but I've since changed that).
I have 16 DZ lines, I've set them to 8-bit mode. They're working fine,
because I can use them for terminal sessions.
As a long time UUCP person on PDP-11's, "Danger Will Robinson."
Just for grins and giggles on the V7/PDP-11 side, try it over a DH (VH
driver in simh) emulation (or even a KL/DL - although the
simulated interrupts will be a mother). That said, the VH driver is a not
exactly a DH as I understand it, its the later QBUS version which was
similar but different. It's been on my list of things I want to chase
down at some point to make work to get it closer to the original.
FYI: Running UUCP over real DZ's was always troublesome. There were a ton
of updates/patches done post the original V7 release in the DZ drivers to
make them play better. Most of us that ran large UUCP set up in the old
days, installed ABLE DMAX (DH/DM) that were a single board DH replacement -
they are DMA, and buffered (and supported proper modem control which the
DZ's don't - although later UCB work on the driver sort of faked it enough
to make to it work for basic dial-up use reasonably reliably).