INFO-VAX Sun, 18 Feb 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 98 Contents: Need a few cables hopefully cheap Re: Need a few cables hopefully cheap Re: Need a few cables hopefully cheap ODS5 and Mozilla RE: Strange problem with SimH v3.7 TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Re: This is what we're up against! Re: This is what we're up against! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Feb 2007 07:54:32 -0800 From: "tomarsin2015@comcast.net" Subject: Need a few cables hopefully cheap Message-ID: <1171814072.156873.103810@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> I'm in need of 2 17-02943-01 internal scsi cables for the 3100-40/80/90, but they will work in a 4000-100X also. I'm retiring the DSSI drives in the 4000-100X series and going to go all scsi disk. thanks phillip ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:24:50 -0500 From: Ben Myers Subject: Re: Need a few cables hopefully cheap Message-ID: To paraphrase Gertrude Stein: "A SCSI is a SCSI is a SCSI." Even DEC SCSI. I most certainly do have a lot of 50-pin SCSI internal cables. 17-02943-01 handles up to 5 internal devices? I quickly put my hands on (2) DEC 17-03459-02 50-pin SCSI cables. These came from some DEC Wintel product that got torn down. In addition to the HBA connector, there are connectors for (4) drives, and another connector with a single-ended SCSI terminator on it. The terminator has DEC part number 12-37791-02. It makes drive setup easier because you don't need to worry about setting termination jumpers on drives. If these will do the job for you, they are $5 apiece plus exact shipping, probably via Priority Mail. If you are local enough to ZIP 01451 (I-495 & MA Rte 2), you can pick them up. I may have some other 50-pin SCSI internal cables with more connectors here, but I'd have to rummage around... Ben Myers On 18 Feb 2007 07:54:32 -0800, "tomarsin2015@comcast.net" wrote: >I'm in need of 2 17-02943-01 internal scsi cables for the >3100-40/80/90, but they will work in a 4000-100X also. I'm retiring >the DSSI drives in the 4000-100X series and going to go all scsi disk. >thanks >phillip ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:37:16 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: Need a few cables hopefully cheap Message-ID: <57820$45d880c3$cef8887a$13432@TEKSAVVY.COM> Ben Myers wrote: > To paraphrase Gertrude Stein: "A SCSI is a SCSI is a SCSI." Even DEC SCSI. Not in a vaxstation 3100-30. The ribbon and disk connectors may have been standard, but both ends of the ribbon came back to the motherboard and used a proprietary connector that combined both ends (aka : more than 50 pins). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:24:54 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: ODS5 and Mozilla Message-ID: Trying to save pages or binary files (.zips etc) in Mozilla, it appears that Mozilla either fails or transforms weird file names to ODS2 standards. For instance, trying to save a page's html as results.php.html results in the file RESULTS_PHP.HTML being created. Also, I tried to subscribe to some newsgroup with a fairly long name as a test, and while it appears to have worked, when you try to access it, nothing happens. Turns out that mozilla fails to create some of the control files because they exceed a certain length. The newsgroup name is roughly 45 to 50 characters long. And I tried with different "long" newsgroup names with the same result. And example of a control file: > USRDIR:[JFMEZEI._MOZILLA.DEFAULT.K9EN0HAR_SLT.NEWS.NEWS2_TEKSAVVY_COM]COMP_OS_VMS.MSF The system disk is ODS5. Is there something which can be done to get Mozilla to make full use of ODS5 capabilities when creating/saving files ? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:01:10 +0100 From: "Gooijen, Henk" Subject: RE: Strange problem with SimH v3.7 Message-ID: <447524F844B59D48B8F7AE7F560935EE09B3F8CD@OVL-EXBE01.ocevenlo.oce.net> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7533B.7FE4574E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hmm, I am running WinXP SP2 and have MinGW installed. After compilation, SIMH 3.7-0 runs just fine here. - Henk, PA8PDP. www.pdp-11.nl ________________________________ Van: PL [mailto:peter_notthis@byron.digitalvax.com] Verzonden: za 17-02-2007 21:30 Aan: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Onderwerp: Re: Strange problem with SimH v3.7 Yes, I got the same too, must be something wrong with the win32-binary. ^P "Gremlin" skrev i meddelandet news:12tddu06eo1de8d@corp.supernews.com... > Hi All > > Just downloaded this version and placed it in a new directory. I am > currently running v3.6 successfully. When I try to run v3.7, I get the > Windows error message "This application has failed to start because the > application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix > this problem.", and I get it when I am running on WXPSP2 and Windows2003.= > Running the *exact* same environment with v3.6 in another directory still= > works fine. Any thought would be appreciated. > > Posted to the SimH mail list two days ago, no response, so I thought I might > try the brains trust here :) > > Cheers > > This message and attachment(s) are intended solely for use by the addressee= and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise = exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or agent thereof responsible for deli= vering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that= any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strict= ly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender = immediately by telephone and with a 'reply' message. = Thank you for your co-operation. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7533B.7FE4574E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Strange problem with SimH v3.7
Hmm, I am runnin= g WinXP SP2 and have MinGW installed.
After compilation, SIMH 3.7-0 runs= just fine here.
- Henk, PA8PDP.

Van: PL [mailto:peter_notthis@byron.dig= italvax.com]
Verzonden: za 17-02-2007 21:30
Aan: Info-V= AX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Onderwerp: Re: Strange problem with SimH v3.7
=

Yes, I got the same too, must be something wrong with the= win32-binary.

^P

"Gremlin" <not-here@all.mate> skrev i= meddelandet
news:12= tddu06eo1de8d@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi All
>
> Just= downloaded this version and placed it in a new directory. I am
> cur= rently running v3.6 successfully. When I try to run v3.7, I get the
>= Windows error message "This application has failed to start because the> application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application = may
fix
> this problem.", and I get it when I am running on WXPSP2= and Windows2003.
> Running the *exact* same environment with v3.6 in= another directory still
> works fine. Any thought would be appreciat= ed.
>
> Posted to the SimH mail list two days ago, no response,= so I thought I
might
> try the brains trust here :)
>
&g= t; Cheers
>
>




= This message and attachment(s) are intended solely for use by the addressee= and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise = exempt from disclosure under applicable law. =0D =0D If you are not the intended recipient or agent thereof responsible for deli= vering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that= any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strict= ly prohibited.=0D =0D If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender = immediately by telephone and with a 'reply' message.=0D =0D Thank you for your co-operation. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7533B.7FE4574E-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:58:22 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Message-ID: Does anyone know of any document which describes VMS' TCPIP Services performance tuning ? In particular, the send/receive windows, window scaling MTU discovery and all the other new bits that are supported in the rest of the world ? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:35:03 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Message-ID: BTW, for those who wish to test some of the performance parameters on your systems: http://www.speedguide.net:8080 (requires javascript) http://syntest.psc.edu:7961/ produces output such as: Here are the SYN options sent by your Web client (Please note that if you are using a proxy server, this info is for your proxy server!) Your IP address is: 286.258.336.122 ! ! Check of SYN options ! !======================================================= ! Variable : Val : Warning (if any) !======================================================= SACKEnabled : 0 : WARN - SACK is not enabled TimestampsEnabled : 0 : WARN - Timestamps option is not enabled CurMSS : 1412 : WinScaleRcvd : 1 : CurRwinRcvd : 129904 : ! ! End of SYN options There is also: $ telnet syntest.psc.edu/port=7960 which gives teh same info as above. And some document that does describe various tuning paramenters for varous unix systems: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/ ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 2007 10:05:14 -0800 From: davidc@montagar.com Subject: Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Message-ID: <1171821914.730766.83180@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> On Feb 18, 9:58 am, JF Mezei wrote: > Does anyone know of any document which describes VMS' TCPIP Services > performance tuning ? > > In particular, the send/receive windows, window scaling MTU discovery and > all the other new bits that are supported in the rest of the world ? Look at TCPIP HELP SYSCONFIG sysconfig is the facility used to tune all the little parameters within the TCP/IP stack, amazingly enough in a similar way as you might in Tru64. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:21:22 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: TCPIP Performance Tuning on VMS ? Message-ID: davidc@montagar.com wrote: > Look at TCPIP HELP SYSCONFIG This tells me how to use SYSCONFIG. But it doesn't describe each possible parameter, relationship between parameters, and various TCPIP bits such as window scaling, MTU discovery etc. Nor does it explain how to maximise performance between machines of a certain distance (eg: across continent), and what impact on various SYSGEN parameters config changes might have (for instance, increasing the send/recv windows takes memory from where , and how much should be added ?) ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 2007 06:15:34 -0800 From: "AEF" Subject: Re: This is what we're up against! Message-ID: <1171808134.629173.217030@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> On Feb 17, 9:27 pm, Ken Robinson wrote: > I found this video on YouTube > by searching for VMS. It was made in 1991! > > The description reads -- Music video for "VMS: Just Say No" which depicts > the pitfalls of VMS addiction. From Episode 3 of "The Looneys Hack Show". > > I wonder if any of the the UPG videos still exist and can be put on > YouTube? > > Ken Well, if this "war on VMS" has as much success as the "war on drugs", VMS has a bright future ahead of it!!! AEF ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:33:16 -0500 From: "William Webb" Subject: Re: This is what we're up against! Message-ID: <8660a3a10702181033y3b503f4bx2ce572aeafc60a46@mail.gmail.com> On 18 Feb 2007 02:27:15 GMT, Ken Robinson wrote: > I found this video on YouTube > by searching for VMS. It was made in 1991! > > The description reads -- Music video for "VMS: Just Say No" which depicts > the pitfalls of VMS addiction. From Episode 3 of "The Looneys Hack Show". > > I wonder if any of the the UPG videos still exist and can be put on > YouTube? > > Ken > Downloadable as an .avi from the following link- http://www.hackshow.org/media/money/vms.avi There's also "101 Things To Do With a Busted RMO-3". http://hackshow.org/media/bricks/rmo3.avi WWWebb ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.098 ************************