26 Dec
2019
26 Dec
'19
5:47 p.m.
VMS phone was a hack by Paul Agnastopolous (sp?) from the VMS mail sources. The other
implementations came later. I remember talking to Paul about it. He was very insistent
that it was truly a HACK!
-Steve Davidson
SF:iP1
On Dec 26, 2019, at 11:18, John Forecast <john at
forecast.name> wrote:
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Are you talking about MCB? Sometime during Phase III development, we were asked to
produce a source kit for LCG. That was pretty much the only interaction we had other than
doing certification testing before a release.
John.
> On 12/25/2019 12:43 PM, John Forecast wrote:
>
> I?ve never seen a Phase I protocol spec but DECnet/8 was probably closer to Phase I
than Phase II although the dates in the source code appear to cover both phases. Even
after Phase II development started the protocols were still being updated - datagram
service was still in the NSP spec in early 1977 but was dropped about half way through the
development cycle. One advantage we had for DECnet-RSX development (11M/11S/11D and IAS)
was that they all shared common protocol processing code, which had been written for an
earlier advanced development project, so protocol changes were relatively easy to make.
>
> John.
On Dec 25, 2019, at 5:44 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
What language did you implement in? I've got a number of sources in BLISS, some of
which don't appear to have originated on the 36 bit platform; perhaps some version of
DAP for FTS.
As Johnny pointed out, pretty much everything was written in Macro-11. PHONE was
not midnight project during Phase III IIRC.
How did it work between you RSX folks and the people doing whatever was in the
DN20's? The 20 host got up to being a Phase IV router, but I don't believe the
DN20's went past Phase III.