On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Steven M Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/31/2016 11:27, Douglas Taylor wrote: > > On 7/31/2016 2:44 AM, Graham Reid wrote: > >> > >> They were just networked, it wasn't a cluster. > > > > Do you remember if the networking software was part of VMS 5.5 or was it > > a third party? I seem to remember third party TCPIP software, > > Multiware, etc. > > If he meant they just used DECNET, then it basically came with the OS. > You might have actually paid extra for it in a commercial setting - I > only dealt with educational or hobbyist licensing, and it was included > in those instances. > > By this time I think DEC had released their Ultrix Connection (UCX) > TCP/IP and utilities product. It combined the protocol stack, some > services and network utilities, and things like a ported Berkeley-style > C shell (/bin/csh). Using that last was a mildly odd experience... They > later replaced that with TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS. > > As Bill Degnan pointed out, the "hot ticket" commercial TCP/IP stack in > the VMS 5.x era was MultiNet. > > There was the older CMU/IP package that everybody seemed to want to get > off of as soon as something else was available. Process Software had > TCPware, which I never encountered in the wild. And of course The > Wollongong Group offered a TCP/IP stack along with Eunice (Unix emulator). > > --S. > If you can get the machine to my house some how I might be able to get MULTINET on your VAX,or at a workshop in the MidAtlantic area. I live near Philadelphia Bill -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
