Thanks for the info. and John!!
bb

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 4:13 PM Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
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> > My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was
> > for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the
> > 380/350/325 boxes.
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> That's how I remember it as well.  I think the DEC notion was that a Pro 
> wasn't powerful enough to do routing, and on top of that it's hard to 
> configure it with enough ports to make it interesting.  In theory it could do 
> Ethernet to 9600 baud sync DDCMP, and if you really want to stress the poor 
> little CPU you could try to add a few async DDCMP lines (on the quad UART 
> card).  I don't know if DECnet/Pro supports anything other than Ethernet, 
> though.
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> I have my Pro/RSTS system running as a router, on two serial ports, though 
> only one is active right now.  The main reason I set it up that way is so it 
> would allow me to turn on the second line, for use as a test data source.
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>         paul
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