[HECnet] DECnet et al

On 2011-07-17 20.35, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: DECnet phase 4 is about as old as ethernet and VMS. Ethernet was the main driving force for phase 4 owing to the large number of adjacent nodes and the sheer number. Not really. Phase IV is about as old as ethernet, yes. VMS is older... Phase 3 does not have areas and only recognizes 255 hosts max. It did have circuit routing (of course) Yes. About the same thing as L1 routing. I think it might even be partially compatible, within the restrictions on the number of nodes... Johnny Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Levine<gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:26:07 To:<hecnet at update.uu.se> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet et al On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Bob Armstrong<bob at jfcl.com> wrote: A bridge (hw) maintains a list of mac addresses it sees at each port. FWIW, that's a "switch" at least in the common usage of the word over here. Bob Hello! I agree! Now first things first. When did DECNET first appear? And more importantly, based on what systems and using what means to connect each system. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."