Hi Cory,

We can take this a off list if you like.   I warn you the DMR/DMC support was for BSD was rudimentary, and most of us in the UNIX community did not mess with it because we had non-DEC Ethernet controllers from that time.    You might have more success seeing if we can dig up a simulation of the Interlan or 3Com Unibus boards which were what may of used.

Clem


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4@gewt.net> wrote:
Hello all, recent subscriber to this list...but some might recognise me.

I'm currently fighting (and mostly succeeding) with getting a pure 4.3BSD-Tahoe install rolling in a VAX simulator (all my tape drives are currently nonfunctional or I'd fire up a real II or III).  Still in the middle of compiling (I know there are easier ways...but I like the feeling of doing it purely "from scratch"...feels more historically accurate).

Anyways, while waiting for the compile I ended up with a working 4.1c installation and I began poking around its source tree (I also did a little bit of poking at the CSRG discs).  I stumbled upon the fact 4.1c supports the DMC (which SIMH git now emulates!) and I see it's also still in src/old on some versions of 4.3 (I wonder if it'll still build...). Looking at the source is immensely confusing...does anyone have any knowledge/notes from the time period/documentation that will help me with my little experiment in archaic networking? I might just be tired...but the berknet configuration doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. (There's also the fact my grasp of C is minimal).

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