TCP/IP for VMS 5.4

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: TCP/IP for VMS 5.4
>   From: <arcarlini at iee.org>
>   Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:06:30 +0100
>     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
>> 
>> The reason I am running 5.4 is that I am running it on a
>> MicroVAX II with a DEQNA, and my understanding is that later
>> versions of VMS did not support the DEQNA, only the DELQA.
>
>This is true, for some value of "later". V5.4 sounds about
>right for the cutoff.

V5 was the cutoff for DEQNA, specifically it was DEQNA is unsupported
and DELQA was supported.  That really ment that if you ran a DEQNA
and had problems with it they would tell you get a DELQA.  It'also meant
the code to run DEQNA was still there and it should work but to expect 
no software updates for that device and that device did run at reduced
performance.  I don't believe the driver itse;f was deleted till later
possibly V6.

Also the DEQNA was prone to failure, so if the system doesn't see it
it may be cause it is dead.


>> I also only have 7MB of working memory (total of 9MB but 2MB
>> are considered bad by VMS) so it may not work well with later
>> versions for lack of memory (not sure though).

V5 or later works in 6 but very poorly.  It should not be hard to 
find working ram to increase that.

It could also be the over the top connector has failed.


>Are you sure that VMS sees it as bad? If it just doesn't see it
>at all, that could well be because you need to run AUTOGEN
>(and maybe ferret out and remove a possible parameter that
>is limiting the number of physical pages ]it might even be
>PHYSICALPAGES]).

It's possible but less likely.

>What does SHOW MEM say?

That would tell us something.


Allison