> On Mar 8, 2023, at 8:48 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt@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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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