17 Jul
2025
17 Jul
'25
11:25 p.m.
Would DECdts be possible to have on Phase IV nodes?
It could be an interesting exercise if so. Not that it's really needed
for RSX. I do have ntp there... But sometimes it's fun to just play
around a little with coding for DECnet. I'm now at a place where I have
nice libraries and header files for C under RSX, so getting DECnet stuff
working from a program goes very quickly.
Johnny
On 2025-07-17 23:20, Paul Koning wrote:
Well, there are new applications. One of these days I
hope to add DECdts support to PyDECnet.
paul
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On Jul 17, 2025, at 5:19 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se>wrote;wrote:
Fair enough, but as Bob points out - Almost everything on HECnet is Phase IV, so you
won't really get any of the benefits of any "enhancements"that happened in
Phase V, when we talk about HECnet in as a concept. Allyou can do is exercise then Phase
IV compatibility of your local Phase Vnode, and suffer the pain of the bugs and
incompatibilities of Phase V. And over time you'll realize that there are a few...
Johnny
On 2025-07-17 22:17, Trevor Warwick wrote:
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retro computing.
For me, running Phase V is actually the whole point. I worked on it at DEC, so it's
fun to connect today using some code I wrote 30+ years ago.
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, 20:56 Robert Armstrong, <bob(a)jfcl.com
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To reiterate, you can connect to HECnet perfectly well when
running DECnet+.
You can, absolutely, but just to be clear HECnet as a wholeis
only Phase IV. When you connect a Phase V node to HECnet you only
get Phase IV functionality to the rest of HECnet.
Like most people I agree that Phase V is not worth the trouble. I wonder how
many Phase V nodes there actually are on HECnet?
Bob
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