[Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-10-07 01:32, Tom Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Rich Alderson
> <simh at alderson.users.panix.com <mailto: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.

Right. I suspect Rich was actually thinking of the 7 layer OSI model, 
which DEC tried really hard to implement.
(And no, TCP/IP do *not* follow the 7 layer OSI model.)

Oh, and the 7 layer OSI model is also called X.200.

	Johnny

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