tcp-ip@ucbvax.ARPA (08/01/85)
From: louie@trantor.arpa (Louis A. Mamakos)
A beta-test release of the IP/TCP-1100 package is now available from
the University of Maryland. IP/TCP-1100 is DoD standard IP and TCP
networking software for the Sperry 1100 series mainframes. It includes
the standard servers for TELNET, FTP and SMTP. Client programs for
TELNET and an SMTP mailer are also included. The client FTP program is
not yet ready for release. In addition, client and user MDQS programs
are included to communicate with their peers on UNIX hosts. MDQS is
a network based queuing system developed at BRL. An electronic mail
system for the Sperry is also supplied as part of the package.
The package will run on 1100/80, 1100/80A, 1100/60 with EIS, 1100/70 with
EIS and 1100/90 systems. It will not run on 1110, 1108, 1100/10, 1100/20
or 1100/40 systems. OS1100 version 38R5 or later is required.
The only network interfaces currently in use are a simple bytestuffing
sync driver for a GCS CTS STD or CTMC CTM 6. This is used to talk to
one of Dave Mills' fuzzball systems. The other uses the Front End Handler
feature of the EXEC to connect a Word channel to a UNIBUS word channel
interface. The board is custom hardware developed at NOSC. Drivers for
4.2 and 4.3 BSD are available. A driver for the DCP is not provided.
The software *is* a beta release; the documentation is not complete, and
some network and Sperry 1100 wizardary will be required. The software is
available on an as-is basis, with no support provided or implied. So much
for the disclamers. For details in obtaining the package, send mail to
<louie@trantor.arpa> or
<louie@umd5.arpa>
The price is free; you send me a tape, and I send it back to you with
the software and documentation (such as it is). If you find bugs, I'd
be glad to hear about them (even more glad if a fix is included), but I
cannot make any promises about fixing the bugs in a timely fashon.
Louis A. Mamakos
Computer Science Center
University of Maryland