[LispM] Lambda Software Release 5.0 (Prototype)

[Robert Swindells]

Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:03 PM, Robert Swindells <rjs at fdy2.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
>>>> On Apr 28, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Robert Swindells <rjs at fdy2.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone got NFS working yet ?
>>> 
>>> No, but you can FTP in and out. There's something wrong with directory
>>> listing, but transfers work. TENEX mode works for transferring qfasl
>>> files.
>> 
>> Ok, will give it a go.
>
>Make sure to use byte size 16. 
>
>> One of the files for NFS was truncated but we had everything else.
>
>Someone found GENASYS? I thought all we ever found was partial source,
>and the core was lost forever.

We didn't have the microcode but there was other stuff in the source
tree that we could have built.

>> I guess an alternative would be to run multiple copies of the
>> emulator as fileservers for each of the LMI trees.
>
>Each? There's only one. I'm confused now. How do you think this works,
>and how exactly do you think this should happen?

There were the DJ and JB machines at LMI, we have backups of what was
on them. The .system files that are in the filesystem explicitly
reference them. I was expecting that we would put them on different
logical hosts.

I think that your emulator will try to talk Chaosnet over Ethernet to
something else, that something else will need to also talk Chaosnet over
Ethernet.

There isn't a very long list of other hosts that can do this these
days, one would be a PDP-10 emulator running ITS, another would be a
second copy of a lispm emulator, maybe you have something else.

I have done some work on getting the old UNIX chaosnet sources to
build on modern BSD but it isn't finished yet.

>I ran multiple machines early on when I was simulating LMI's network
>environment, but I don't have to do it anymore.

Ok, how about describing how you expect us to set things up, or would
you prefer that we keep trying to guess.