27 Mar
2020
27 Mar
'20
5:38 p.m.
On 3/27/20 11:47 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
But that's another curious thing - there ARE
drivers included with RT11
for the DEUNA, DEQNA and the Pro series Ethernet NI. What was the point of
those? Did DEC think people would write their own networking software?
I know of one project that did. But it wasn't a matter of "adding
networking capability to the OS". An Ethernet interface is nearly
always thought of as that, of course, but that doesn't have to be the
case. Fast application-level communication between nodes without going
through the OS (other than the device driver) can be handy for
low-latency communications.
But then again, I only saw it once. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA