[HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness....

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Johnny Billquist Verzonden: donderdag, juli 2011 20:51 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness.... On 2011-07-14 19.56, MG wrote: On 13-7-2011 11:32, Johnny Billquist wrote: Just that the discussions lately seems to have started assuming that everyone is running VMS. :-) If so, wouldn't there be a solid rationale behind that thought? VMS is, by default, offering DECnet and out-of-the-box. So, for the sake of DECnet and genuine usage thereof, it could hence be seen as a big and important player in that regard, correct? VMS does not by default offer DECnet. It's a separate license you need to install. But yes, VMS is very much associated with DECnet, and DECnet is very well integrated in VMS. So it's an important player when we say DECnet. But it's by no means the only one, or one you have to have, to run DECnet. But I know that most people know that this is not true. I just felt like pointing it out. Not trying to offend anyone. I don't know what most people know, but I *did* get the impression that discussion on VMS would have been allowed or not considered off-topic. So, you'll have to excuse me for having participated in that discussion about VMS and related things and I'll refrain from doing so in the future in my messages addressed to this mailing list. Please don't read too much in to it. Talk about VMS is definitely not banned. I just thought it was becoming perhaps a little too much last week, considering the normal volume of mail on this list, and reflecting on the fact that not everyone might be interested. There were smileys in my mail... Johnny ----- DEC asked a pretty hefty fee for the privilege to run DECnet. If only that license would have been free, and available to 3rd parties, well then DECnet would have been somewhat more important. And yes, I realize its design limitations in phase IV. There were indeed smileys in your mail Johnny! I guess most of us have a favorite DEC OS. Mine happen to be VMS and RT-11. RSX-11 just didn't sit well on a PDP-11/40 with one RK05 and a DECtape I unit. Hans