> On Jul 17, 2016, at 11:06 AM, John Forecast <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I suppose so. Rumor had it that Phase I only existed on RSX, but it appears
>> that there was a PDP-8 implementation as well. Phase II was implemented on
>> lots of DEC systems, from TOPS-10 to RT-11 to RSTS/E. My initial
>> involvement with DECnet was as the DECnet/E kernel guy, upgrading DECnet/E
>> from Phase II to Phase III.
>>
> I worked at a customer site in Sweden which consisted of a pair of
> 11/40’s running
> RSX-11D and DECnet Phase I. I’m pretty sure that Phase I only ran on
> 11D in the RSX
> family.
I'd always heard that. But recently I found Phase I documents, which include
protocol specifications of a sort, sufficient to tell that it wouldn't be
compatible with Phase II and couldn't readily be made to be. (In particular,
NSP works rather differently.) And that document was for a PDP-8 OS.
Possibly it was built but not shipped, or designed but not built. The document
has the look of r a finished product manual, though.
paul
