Only a few weeks ago, I linked to Cameron Kaiser’s excellent deep dive into the DEC Professional 380 running PRO/VENIX, and now we have a follow-up.
Fortunately, today
↫ Cameron Kaiserwe have AIwe have many more excellent and comprehensive documents on the subject, and more importantly, we’ve recently brought back up an oddball platform that doesn’t have networking either: our DEC Professional 380 running the System V-based PRO/VENIX V2.0, which you met a couple articles back. The DEC Professionals are a notoriously incompatible member of the PDP-11 family and, short of DECnet (DECNA) support in its unique Professional Operating System, there’s officially no other way you can get one on a network — let alone the modern Internet. Are we going to let that stop us?
No. The answer is always no. If you’ve ever wanted to know what’s involved in setting up a custom TCP/IP stack using serial on a 40 year old UNIX workstation, your very specific desires are hereby met.
What an amazing writeup! So rich in Unix and DEC history. I need to bookmark Cameron Kaiser.
Agreed, he never fails to impress!