20 Oct
2022
20 Oct
'22
11:02 p.m.
On Oct 20, 2022, at 3:18 PM, John Forecast
<john(a)forecast.name> wrote:
I used networking machinery on RSX-11/D and IAS, but it wasn't DECnet. That was in
Typeset-11, which had its own completely separate networking machinery, using DMC-11
links. It included distance vector routing (Phase III style) before Phase III appeared.
As far as I remember, the only service it provided was file transfer; the idea was that
the system would pass files around between "queue managers" to represent pieces
of work for a newspaper. Those might be news articles, or classified ads to be entered
into the ad database.
paul
On Oct 20, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Does RSX-11S actually send a different code tham -M ? Or is that a distinction the DAP
spec made that isn't valid in the real world?
I’m pretty sure I remember -11S sending it’s own code in DAP. While -11S and
-11M (and later -11M+) shared common source code, they each had separate distribution
kits.
It's not surprising the table would use the
-M code since that would be the original common one. I don't know that DECnet on 11D
was real, and it seem D wasn't anywhere near as popular as M for a number of good
reasons.
I first met DECnet-11D as a Phase I product running at a customer site in 1976.
Later I was project lead for DECnet-11D and DECnet-IAS so it definitely was real. I agree
that it wasn’t anywhere near as popular as M.