[Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

[John Forecast]

On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

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>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 11:42 PM, John Forecast <john at forecast.name> wrote:
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>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> 	Phase II use NSP v3.1 so that’s probably another indication that it’s a Phase I product.
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> That would be an interesting surprise.  The history I have seen says that Phase I was RSX only.
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> It also appears that Phase I is undocumented, and that it isn't compatible (can't be made to interoperate) with Phase II.
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	Before coming to the US, I worked at a customer site in Sweden which had 2 11/40s
	running RSX-11D and DECnet Phase I ( I think hey had DU-11s interfaces). For a first
	version it was actually pretty stable.The intention was to run a master/warm standby
	system - I don’t know how well it worked since I left before the system went on-line.

	The only documentation I saw was the end-user docs; installation guide, programming guide
	etc. I suspect that there were only a small number of Phase I installations (I do know that
	Volvo in Gothenburg was one) - I submitted an SPR (Software Problem Report) while in
	Sweden and then proceeded to answer it once I got to the US!

	    John.