Was 11/D what also ran in DN20's?? The DECSYSTEM-20 was actually a
cluster of computers with the PDP-10 being connected to up to four
11/40's (or 34?) via interfaces called DTE's.? The DN20 was a repackaged
PDP-11 (34?) and they were incredibly useful.
CU20B, our largest system, had three such units:
1. Front-end PDP-11, ran a variant of RSX called 20F and handled
communications lines, unit record equipment and (I believe) the AN20
ARPAnet IMP interface.
2. DECnet DN20; we had lines to other 20's (KMC11's) before we got
Ethernet, plus a line to a VAX and a DN200 RJE.
3. DN65, used for IBM/HASP communications.? I had source to the DN65,
but I can not remember for the life of me whether it was an RSX
variant or custom code.? That's surprising because I had to make
some modifications to have it talk with one of our 4341's.
I have heard a site (I believe it was Case Western) that had a fourth
PDP-11 serving as a communications concentrator for more lines
(DH11's).? One shudders to think of a 20 with that many users.? Things
got pretty slow at 50 and once you got up to 70, it was time to find
something else to do.
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On 12/20/19 6:12 PM, John Forecast wrote:
Yes, both DECnet-IAS and DECnet-11/D existed, I was the project lead for the initial
phase II releases (I think there was an updated release later on).
DECnet for RSX-11/D was also one of the initial phase I releases, I used it at a customer
site in Sweden.
John.
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> On Dec 20, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> Did that exist? I'm fairly sure it did. What about DECnet for RSX-11/D? Not so
sure about that one.
>
> paul
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>> On Dec 20, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net>
wrote:
>> If you run across anyone with DECET-IAS, please let me know...
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>>> On 2019-12-20 1:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>>
>>> Do I have any volunteers who operate something besides VMS? I'd be
interested in RSX(+), IAS, RSTS and OS-8. They never did DECnet on RT-11, did they?