On Oct 7, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 18:43, John Forecast wrote: >> >> On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>>> ... >>>> DECNET is available under RSX-11M and RSTS/E on PDP-11s, Tops-10 and >>>> TOPS-20 >>>> on PDP-10s, and under VMS (and possibly Ultrix, I don't remember for >>>> certain) >>>> on VAXen, and on VMS follow-on systems. It is as far as possible agnostic >>>> about what kind of system it was running on or connecting to. >>> >>> DECnet/Ultrix, yes. There is also a limited DECnet for RT-11, and for DOS. >>> And VAXELAN. And possibly IAS, I don't remember that one for sure. >>> >> Both IAS and RSX-11D (essentially the same code) were Phase II only. >> There was also a >> Phase II implementation for OS/8 but I seem to remember it being >> cancelled fairly early >> in the Phase II schedule. > > I thought IAS and -11D made it to phase III, but I can't find any evidence > either way now that I'm looking. > I worked on the 2.0 release and I know there was a 2.1 bug fix update but I don’t remember any phase III implementation. > I have DECNET-8. It's not for OS/8 but for RTS-8. But yes, it is phase II. I > have never tried it, though. So I don't know how/if it actually works, and I > don't have any phase II or phase III nodes to test against. > Yes, you’re right, it was RTS-8. Looking at the date on the DECNET-8 SPD (May 1977) seems to imply that it was a Phase I product. Around that time we were just putting together the system-level architecture of DECnet-11M/11D/IAS and it would be another year before they would ship (SPD says June 1978). John. > Johnny > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
