On 2015-10-07 21:50, John Forecast wrote:
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.
You might well be right. I tried searching for SPDs for DECnet/IAS and
only found the 2.0 release that way. And the 2.0 release was for phase
II. IAS itself got to at least V3.5 release in 1992. Surprised that
DECnet was never updated, but like I said, can't find anything.
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).
I have always just assumed it was phase II, but now I sat down and tried
reading through the code. And I'm not sure anymore.
It's clearly called V1A (some modules are at V1C) of DECNET/8, but the
problem is that I can't find any clear mention of which phase it is
anywhere.
What I can find is that it claims to implement NSP SPEC LEVEL 2.2. Not
sure what that is worth. The TLK program also mention adding PDP11
compatibility, so it would definitely appear that it worked, and could
communicate with PDP-11 systems.
It's also clearly dated early 1977.
Johnny
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