> On Feb 22, 2026, at 10:30 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the DECnet-RT client software to connect an RT-11 node to another > DECnet node is (hopefully now: was) missing. > The DECnet-RT SPD is available at > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/decnet/decnetRT/ > The SPD says it is DECnet Phase II. > I would love to lay my hands on DECnet-RT as well as on DECnet/8! > Ulli
Some faint memory says that DECnet/RT might have made it to Phase 3 (endnode only), but I don't know if that was just a proposal or possibility. Or to put it differently, I think part of the motivation for the existence of end nodes was to handle tiny systems like RT11. As for a copy, an old email mentions this: > On 2018-09-19 15:59, Paul Koning wrote: >>> On Sep 18, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> There is a phase ii release for rts-8. How easy it would be to get it up >>> and running might be a different story, but the sources are on the internet. >> Where on the Internet? >> I've never used RTS-8, nor for that matter any PDP-8, but with some luck I >> should be able to read that code and that would be interesting, too. >> paul > > Paul, I don't know where it originally came from, but on > ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp8/pdp-8/fromnichols have a decnet8.exe, which > is a self extracting zip archive with the files. > > But if you are on HECnet (or else telnet to mim.update.uu.se > <http://mim.update.uu.se/> and log in as guest), and check MIM::US:[DECNET8], > you have the already unpacked files available. > > Johnny I have a copy of the manual, which some searching tells me came from John Wilson's archives: http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/doc/decnet8.doc that includes a protocol specification. The code does not exactly match it, but it's quite close. paul
