On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > On the other hand, the even more obscure DECnet/8 was found a couple of years > ago. Its main limitation is that it is Phase I, which is not compatible with > any later DECnet. I have some support for it in DECnet/Python development > code.
Yes. Back in the mid-80s when I was using a PDP-8/a at home every day (128Kw memory, RL8A/RL01... nice system), I had heard about DECnet/8 but it was hard to track down even then. It was widely known/understood at the time it was only Phase I, but still, it was *networking* for a PDP-8! I did manage to get RTS-8 working on that machine, with OS/8 in a process. I never ended up writing any from-scratch stuff for RTS-8 but I did go through the documentation examples and got it working. -ethan
