[Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Remember the keyword in my presentation was "possibly".

And shortly after sending it, I realized it was for the other one,
RTS-8 not OS/8. (That was based on the discussions on that list you
and someone else run remember.) However the big problem for me here
was and still is, that of hardware.

I wonder if it was ever tested properly and even made to work with
everything else......
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 18:43, John Forecast wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> DECNET is available under RSX-11M and RSTS/E on PDP-11s, Tops-10 and
>>>> TOPS-20
>>>> on PDP-10s, and under VMS (and possibly Ultrix, I don't remember for
>>>> certain)
>>>> on VAXen, and on VMS follow-on systems.  It is as far as possible
>>>> agnostic
>>>> about what kind of system it was running on or connecting to.
>>>
>>>
>>> DECnet/Ultrix, yes.  There is also a limited DECnet for RT-11, and for
>>> DOS.  And VAXELAN.  And possibly IAS, I don't remember that one for sure.
>>>
>>         Both IAS and RSX-11D (essentially the same code) were Phase II
>> only. There was also a
>>         Phase II implementation for OS/8 but I seem to remember it being
>> cancelled fairly early
>>         in the Phase II schedule.
>
>
> I thought IAS and -11D made it to phase III, but I can't find any evidence
> either way now that I'm looking.
>
> I have DECNET-8. It's not for OS/8 but for RTS-8. But yes, it is phase II. I
> have never tried it, though. So I don't know how/if it actually works, and I
> don't have any phase II or phase III nodes to test against.
>
>         Johnny
>
>
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