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Internet (TCP/IP) and other communications options

Communications hardware

  • TTY serial lines
  • NIA-20 ethernet interface
  • CI-20 cluster interface

Internet (TCP/IP)

IP version 4 is implemented in some distributions of tOPS-20.

Addressing

Management operations

Applications

Interactive remote login
  • TELNET
User interaction
  • Mail
File transfer
  • FTP

Programming

Protocols

Connection-oriented end-to-end data streams (TCP)
  • Client end
  • Server end
packet-oriented datagram transfer (UDP)
Sockets
Assembly level operations

DECnet

DECnet is the proprietary network protocol designedby Digital EquipmentCorporation for communication between diffrent hosts runnning operatingsytems such as TOPS-20, TOPS-10, VMS, RSX etc. Implementations exist also for other operating systems,such as Sun/Solaris and GNU/Linux.

Addressing
Management operations
  • OPR/NCP
Applications
Interactive remote login
  • SET HOST
User interaction
  • MAIL
File transfer
Programming
  • Client end
  • Server end
Assembly-level operations

ChaosNet

ChaosNet is an optional protocol designed primarily for communication with and between MIT CADR Lisp Machines. implementations (maybe experimental) may exist for some TOPS-20 distributions.

tutorials/network.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/29 08:40 by sm5por