Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctech
> On Jun 1, 2022, at 5:53 AM, Warner Losh via cctech > wrote: > > ... > I believe the DEPCA was based on the venerable > SONIC chipset, but it may have been the LANCE. It wasn't NE-2000 compatible > (that came later) :). LANCE seems plausible, or perhaps one of the later chips designed by

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-01 Thread Warner Losh via cctech
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:08 PM Wayne S via cctech wrote: > I think Decnet can run over a serial connection (rs-232) if you have > Decnet software. It’s not medium dependent. I got it to work years ago from > vax-to-vax. I’m not aware of any pc decnet software although I haven’t > looked much

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-01 Thread Warner Losh via cctech
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 7:51 AM Paul Koning wrote: > > > > On Jun 1, 2022, at 5:53 AM, Warner Losh via cctech < > cctech@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > ... > > I believe the DEPCA was based on the venerable > > SONIC chipset, but it may have been the LANCE. It wasn't NE-2000 > compatible > >