On 8/2/22 14:42, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:


On Aug 2, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
wrote:

On 8/2/22 11:52 AM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
Umm...  The problem is that there are a lot more DECnet systems than just VMS.

Please elaborate.

I naively assumed that anything that was running DECnet was doing so to be able 
to communicate with a DEC system / OS.

It sounds like you are aware of places where DECnet is being used that doesn't 
involve DEC system(s) / OS(s).

I think the context was TCP as an alternative transport, given the fading 
DECnet support in Linux.  And yes, that's an option for Unix and VMS, but not 
for a number of other DEC operating systems that have no TCP option.

Hm, I'm reminded that someone did a TCP add-on to RSTS, that would be 
interesting to examine.  A tricky piece of work, given that RSTS was not at all 
designed to be customer-extensible (unlike RSX and RT-11).  Not even customer 
device drivers, let alone anything much harder, like a whole network stack.

I know there is a (not generally available) TCP/IP for RSX but I never
saw or even heard of one for RSTS.

bill

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