[Simh] VMS Network device support

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2013, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:

>
> On Friday, June 07, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
>> I found an official DEC letter from 1992.
>>
>> First, VAX Wide Area Networking is a separate product.  The kit name is SYNC
>> (e.g. SYNC012 on the CDs).
>> It has a separate PAK - one of which is WAN-DEVICE-DRIVERS.  The DUP for
>> HDLC and Bisync requires it, but apparently not for DDCMP.  But the
>> DMC/DMR and other sync lines do.
>>
>> Second, many of our plans assume a decnet router.  VMS VAX requires the
>> DVNETRTG PAK to enable this.
>
> The DVNETRTG PAK is included in the Hobbyist license set I got from HP.
>
> There is no PAK for WAN-DEVICE-DRIVERS though.
>
> I believe that several folks are already running Rob Jarratt's DMC on VMS without any PAKs.  I don't know what version of VMS they are running though.  I suspect that V4.x didn't require PAKs for this stuff....
>

4.x needed a DECnet PAK.  I have it laying around if needed.

> - Mark
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