9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
2:55 a.m.
On Mar 8, 2023, at 8:48 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
On 2023-03-09 02:36, Dave McGuire wrote:
I'm not really sure, but at the time I participated in the design review of the first
of those devices DEC wasn't doing TCP much yet, and was very much into X over DECnet.
paul
On 3/8/23 20:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:
And VT1000.
I was pretty sure they were called VXT and not VT, but googling seems to suggest they
were indeed called VT1000 and VT1200. There was also the VT1300 and VT2000, which I barely
remembered.
Anyway, I was wondering if they talked DECnet, and the Wikipedia article seems to suggest
they actually didn't. They just spoke TCP/IP for X11, but they also talked LAT
natively. But then you just had 24x80 terminals on that fancy screen. (And of course, they
also had serial ports.)
Johnny For that
matter, there are also DECnet nodes that are neither routers nor general purpose
computers.
The network-connected PostScript printers (LPS40, LPS20) are an example, as are some of
the earlier
X terminals. (Wasn't there something called the VT1000?)
There was both VXT1000 and VXT1200.