[Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Rich Alderson <simh at alderson.users.panix.com
> wrote:

>
> DECNET provides host connectivity (like telnet), file transfer (like ftp),
> electronic mail (like smtp+{pop,imap}), data sharing (like nfs), and
> loosely
> coupled clustering.  Digital actually believed that it should replace all
> of
> the IP-based protocols, since it was actively engineered instead of being a
> series of experiments (in Digital's view) that grew like Topsy; Digital
> tried
> very hard to make it a real implementation of the ISO X.400 pipe
> dream^W^Wstandards.
>

You're mixing apples and turnips. X.400 is the family of ISO standards for
email and didn't have anything to do with DECnet.  The Mail-11 protocol
might loosely be considered a DECnet application level protocol for email.

Tom
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