[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

[Marc Van Dyck]

John Forkosh used his keyboard to write :
> Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> wrote:
>> <<snip>>
>> The thing that I will need to port/rewrite is something that has been
>> written more than 10 years ago. It involves communicating between two
>> systems, and if one of the two will be VMS, the other one will remain
>> Linux and on this one nothing can and will be changed. So I will have
>> to re-implement, one way or another, exactly the same protocol. I think
>> it is just raw tcp, but I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet.
>> But in any case, migrating to TLS or IPv6 is out of question, as I
>> don't control what I'm talking to at the other end.
>> <<snip>>
>
> Probably of no help to you nowadays, but take a look at
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelan
> "...The company offered a line of Ethernet 'front end processor' boards
>  for Multibus, VMEbus, Q-Bus, Unibus ... that integrated the cards into
>  a variety of operating system environments, including many flavors of
>  UNIX, RSX-11, VMS, and DOS."
>
> If you could get a card and its accompanying software >>for your Itanium
> bus<<, it would be an almost transparent port, at least the tcp/ip part.
> I used that card in an 11/780 during a 1988-89 contract for Chase bank.
> Mostly udp datagrams, and it was almost 100% identical/transparent to
> native networking calls.

Yeah, doubt very much that they have a model that fits in a mezzannine
slot...

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Marc Van Dyck