[Simh] RTS/8 and DECnet

Robert Armstrong bob at jfcl.com
Mon Mar 14 23:30:14 EDT 2016


>As I said, I did not have DECnet/8 in hand 30 years ago

  Sorry - I missed that part...

  I just skimmed the manual, but it looks like DECnet-8 was really limited.  It's basically a toolkit for writing your own applications that talk via DECnet; the only standard applications supplied are TLK and LSN (sort of the PDP-8 equivalent to PHONE).  There's no FAL, NFT or RMT task.  It doesn't seem like there's much you can do with it unless you want to write a bunch of software first.

  Or is there something I'm missing?

Bob





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