It can via the gateway software. I see several and it appears that many
(if not all) require specialized hardware for the interconnection. A
search for (vms sna gateway) will point you to the SPD's.
-Steve
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 08:34
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?
Can VMS talk SNA? If so, I'm in :)
Sampsa
On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:31, Fred wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Where should we go from here? Setting up our own virtual X.25 PSDN
tunnelled over IP maybe? Something crazy with SNA?
SNA! SNA! :)
I could set up Hercules here running MVS 3.8J ... ;) I'm sure the
folks have been able to get SNA to work within the emulator. I set
up Hercules and MVS once, but other than a novelty, I really didn't
do much with it, because most of my associates wouldn't know a
mainframe if it ran them over. I think it would be interesting to
get something quasi-public (on HECmet) going.
Fred
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Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use in a
polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they
prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.