25 Sep
2022
25 Sep
'22
6:51 p.m.
On 2022-09-25 18:41, Paul Koning wrote:
43 since that was the node number Supriatim was trying to set.
According to Wikipedia, phase II only supported 32 nodes. But as I've
never used it, I don't really know what to think.
Johnny
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On Sep 25, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se
<mailto:bqt@softjar.se>> wrote:
On 2022-09-25 13:54, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Oh! Wow. Other end of spectrum. I don't remember ever touching that.
Earliest VMS I ever played with was 3.7, if I remember right. Also
never used Phase II. Earliest was Phase III. Did Phase II even support
more than 43 nodes? I guess I should check some. :-)
43? The spec says Phase II node numbers are in the range 2 to 240, but
they aren't actuallly used for anything. So, in a sense, Phase II can
handle any size network. But it doesn't do routing except the limited
"intercept" stuff. Still, with PyDECnet intercept, a TOPS-20 V4 node
can talk to any HECnet node. On Sep
25, 2022, at 5:44 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)softjar.se
<mailto:bqt@softjar.se>> wrote:
Uh... Do you have Phase V installed?
Hehe - It’s VAX VMS 2.0 running DECnet 1.3
which I think is phase II
based on the gunkies post
athttps://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3…
<https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0><https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0
<https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0>>