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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:00:35 -0000
From: Stig Topp-Jorgensen <S.Topp-Jorgensen@physics.ox.ac.uk>
To: "'Ian A. Vine'" <iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: LTC testing and TRS801s

Hi Ian

The kernel is the harness/kernel task which runs on the VMS system and
boots the Transputer network and provides the interface between the
Transputers and VMS. It provides the file handling, messaging services
etc. And it also used to provide access to MBM but that service was
removed about a year ago.

This is running on VAX-VMS. We have not yet tried it on any Alphas
although we will soon have to do that. It may just be a matter of
recompiling the code but I suspect that there will be a few fairly
trivial things which may need changing in order to get it up and
running.

Cheers

Stig
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:02:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Ian A. Vine" <iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk>
To: Stig Topp-Jorgensen <S.Topp-Jorgensen@physics.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: LTC testing and TRS801s


        Thanks Stig,

        I hadn't realised code had not yet moved to alpha. I guess
        moving to a VAX with a trs801 should present few problems.
        Getting the trs801 drivers working and then changing the
        setup files to use the new device rather than the qt0.

        Cheers,
Ian
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:13:42 -0000
From: Stig Topp-Jorgensen <S.Topp-Jorgensen@physics.ox.ac.uk>
To: "'Ian A. Vine'" <iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: LTC testing and TRS801s
> Hi Ian
> 
> Yes, the worst problem is probably the TR801 drivers for the Alpha.
> They are apparently not great, but Chris Youngman has found
> workarounds for the problems. So I may have to change some of the
> calls in hte kernel.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Stig