On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 4:22 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 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.
I used to do that for a living between 1984-1994. We had our own board (68000, front-end application running out of local RAM, VMS/RSTS/Unix app talking to our board to read/write/print files to/from the bisync link). I know there were apps that supposedly ran entirely on the VAX that used dumb sync serial cards (DUP-11, etc) but we sold a lot of COMBOARDs to people who tried that first and gave up. We sold HASP, 3780 and SNA products. The SNA products were a bear to get working at different customer sites. We had a entire chapter of docs, meant to be printed out and handed to the IBM folks, just about how to configure the BIND. Our SNA product emulated a PU Type 2 and let you connect from your local VT100 and appear to be a 3270 session. It mostly worked once you got the BIND right. Bisync was a _lot_ easier to configure and get working. -ethan