[HECnet] VAX/VMS 1.50

I was working in Software Services (Maynard, MA) in the summer of 1980. VAXWRK:: (VMS) was connected to ASTRIX:: (RSX) via DMC-11. ASTRIX:: was charged with routing out of the building (PK2) using another DMC-11. I do remember it was a rather bumpy road for a while but eventually they got it right. SET HOST worked well enough for me to connect to the other remote sites in MA and NH that I only had to travel once a week. Otherwise I would have been travelling much more often. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:08 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 1.50 On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 04/04/2013 04:45 PM, hvlems wrote: No ethernet in '79, no phase IV. So a DU11? Hmmmm. Does SIMH emulate that? It doesn't look like it does. And I don't know that VMS ever supported that device, anyway. RSX did, but various other systems tended to stay away from it because of the high software overhead. I do know that VMS supports DMC-11 (or DMR-11, essentially the same at the driver level), and there is support for that in the in-development release of SIMH. paul