25 Sep
2022
25 Sep
'22
6:41 p.m.
On Sep 25, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
On 2022-09-25 13:54, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Oh! Wow. Other end of spectrum. I don't remember ever touching that. Earliest VMS I
ever played with was 3.7, if I remember right. Also never used Phase II. Earliest was
Phase III. Did Phase II even support more than 43 nodes? I guess I should check some. :-)
43? The spec says Phase II node numbers are in the range 2 to 240, but they aren't
actuallly used for anything. So, in a sense, Phase II can handle any size network. But
it doesn't do routing except the limited "intercept" stuff. Still, with
PyDECnet intercept, a TOPS-20 V4 node can talk to any HECnet node.
paul
On Sep
25, 2022, at 5:44 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)softjar.se
<mailto:bqt@softjar.se>> wrote:
Uh... Do you have Phase V installed?
Hehe - It’s VAX VMS 2.0 running DECnet 1.3
which I think is phase II based on the gunkies post at
https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_o…
<https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0><https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0
<https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_DECnet_V1.3_on_VMS_V2.0>>