9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
3:04 a.m.
On 3/8/23 20:48, 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.
There were also VXT* models.
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. 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.)
I never tried using DECnet, but I sat in front of a VT1000 every day
for a long time, back-ended by a VAX. It was configured for IP.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA