On 11/18/19 1:36 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 11/18/19 2:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> You can say that again. We never could get HASP running on out 11-750 >> on BSD. This was about 1984. The Berkeley Systems Group even tried >> and no soap. This was a leased line setup with Bell 209 modems. > > "…HASP…" MVS / OS/390 / z/OS term. > "…on our 11-750…" that sounds like a VAX term (11/750). > > Brain: Wait a minute. These are different ecosystems. Yes, they are > supposed to be able to communicate, but is that what we're really > talking about here?
You've got that right--we leased our VAX on the condition from the vendor that it could run HASP. The BSD folks had a package from a third party that claimed to do that. We never figured out that it could. The leased line was a 9600 bps sync from St. Paul to Santa Clara. IIRC, it was about $5K/month. IBM hardware on the far end, feeding an ETA 10 system. How's that for a bizarre configuration? Would have been nice had it worked. By 1990, 9600 bps over voice-grade lines would be abysmally slow. --Chuck
