<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">VMWare Player is available for free, and will allow you to create<br class="">virtual machines without a problem. It's basically the same as<br class="">Workstation without the problems of an evaluation period ending and<br class="">catching you or the user out. Of course trying to get it to properly<br class="">engage on the laptop when running Linux, is a trip to be certain.<br class=""><br class="">Of course I can't go ahead with this idea until I get more feedback<br class="">from the rest of the group.<br class="">——</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>This is a Windows 98 virtual machine running under VMWare Fusion:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>c:\>ver</div><div><br class=""></div><div>4DOS 8,00 (Win98) DOS 7,10</div><div><br class=""></div><div>c:\>ncp loop node bitxor</div><div><br class=""></div><div>LOOP NODE test started at Wed Nov 08 10:14:40 2017</div><div><br class=""></div><div> Connect complete to node BITXOR</div><div> Remote node maximum buffer size for loopback: 184</div><div><br class=""></div><div> Send 1, 46 bytes.</div><div> Successful send and receive, message 1.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>LOOP NODE test finished successfully at Wed Nov 08 10:14:41 2017</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>c:\></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s not strictly DECNET-DOS; it’s PATHWORKS-32, which includes the DECNET stack. I’ve not been able to try the old, “pure” DECNET-DOS because the supported LAN cards (DEPCA et all) are not emulated in any VM software I know. But this setup works OK:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">c:\>nft</div><div class=""> NFT - Network File Transfer - V6.0.004</div><div class="">NFT>dir bitxor::</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Directory of: bitxor::DU1:[DECNET]</div><div class="">INFO.TXT;1 4 22-NOV-12 12:15:25</div><div class="">INFO.TXT;9 8 29-DEC-12 01:25:14</div><div class="">INFO.TXT;10 9 14-MAR-13 13:05:37</div><div class="">NFT></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s try a remote FAL access:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[BITXOW]$ dir 7.98::</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Directory 7.98::C:[PW32]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">API.CNT API.HLP ASLAPI.DLL ASLCZ.DLL </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ASLDE.DLL ASLFR.DLL ASLPASS.EXE ASLUS.DLL </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">CHARSETS.DAT CSM32.DLL CSM_W3.DLL DAP32.DLL </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DECIC16.DLL DECITOT.CNT DECITOT.DAT DECITOT.HLP </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DECITOT.TPL DECLOG.CNT DECLOG.EXE DECLOG.HLP </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DECTAL.DLL DECTNET.DLL DEINST.EXE DEINSTAL.DAT </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DEINSTAL.TXT FAL32.EXE INDEXFIX.HLP MANDEC.CNT </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MANDEC.HLP NCP.EXE NCPHELP.BIN NCPTAB.BIN </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">NFTW.CNT NFTW.HLP NFTW32.EXE NMAPI32.DLL </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">NML32.EXE NM_MSG.BIN PW32.CNT PW32.HLP </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWASSTCZ.CNT PWASSTCZ.HLP PWASSTDE.CNT PWASSTDE.HLP </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWASSTFR.CNT PWASSTFR.HLP PWASSTUS.CNT PWASSTUS.GID </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWASSTUS.HLP PWCTERM.DLL PWENT.DAT PWINACC.DAT </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWLICLM.CNT PWLICLM.HLP PWMSG.CNT PWMSG.HLP </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWNODE.DAT PWOBJ.DAT PWREADME.TXT PWS2DNST.EXE </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWS2INST.EXE PWSOCK32.DLL PWTELNT.DLL SPAWN32.EXE </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">UPGRADE.INI WHATSNEW.CNT WHATSNEW.HLP WHATSNEW.TXT </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">nft.exe </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: rgb(40, 254, 20); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Total of 69 files.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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