I don’t believe that DECnet on RT-11 supports Ethernet. Zane
> On Feb 27, 2026, at 4:49 PM, Jim Davis via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I didn't know the 11/23 had net. We used fat coax and vampire taps on the > network capable machines. > >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM Paul Koning via cctalk >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On the other hand, the even more obscure DECnet/8 was found a couple of >> years ago. Its main limitation is that it is Phase I, which is not >> compatible with any later DECnet. I have some support for it in >> DECnet/Python development code. >> >> Yes. Back in the mid-80s when I was using a PDP-8/a at home every day >> (128Kw memory, RL8A/RL01... nice system), I had heard about DECnet/8 >> but it was hard to track down even then. It was widely >> known/understood at the time it was only Phase I, but still, it was >> *networking* for a PDP-8! >> >> I did manage to get RTS-8 working on that machine, with OS/8 in a >> process. I never ended up writing any from-scratch stuff for RTS-8 >> but I did go through the documentation examples and got it working. >> >> -ethan >>
