9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
3:04 a.m.
Definitely had DECnet. The VT1300 was based on VAXELN, and was a stop-gap
until the (much less costly) VT1200 could be finished and put into
production. Based on a diskless VAXstation 3100. Software was done mostly
by the X11 group of the VAXELN group. Still have a system nameplate around
here someplace.
Chuck
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 8:55 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
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.
On Mar 8, 2023, at 8:48 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
On 2023-03-09 02:36, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 3/8/23 20:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> 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.
And VT1000.
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
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
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