Also Process Software's MultiNET, which we were using circa '98-2000 at one site here in Vermont.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > >There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you > >are an hp software partner, you can get ssh access to a virtual > >machine running OpenVMS 8.4 EFT. > > I did not mean to imply that there was not "good stuff happening with > VMS"....but VMS is and was not DECnet. > > Even when I was there you could see the writing on the wall for DECnet > as a protocol. TCP/IP was available for VMS, first through Wollongong > (boy, I have not thought about them in years!) and then through DEC > itself with TCP/IP Services for VMS (then TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, > now HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS). > > BUT people still had LAT boxes, and wanted to use them. And LAT boxes > did not speak TCP/IP. So there were gateway products and such created, > both by DEC and then by others. But the gateway products just were not > the same as "DECnet". > > DECnet Linux was just another fine example of FOSS extending the life of > otherwise forgotten hardware. > > I went to the HP site and found the latest version of DECnet OpenVMS > (Version 7.3). The date on the manual was May of 1993, one year before > I met Linus. > > DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS (including X.25 support) latest version is 8.3, > with a date of June 2006. > > RIP DECnet Linux! > > md > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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