27 Mar
2020
27 Mar
'20
5:19 p.m.
The folks did write their own stuff. IIRC, Megan Gentry did an ethernet file xfer program
for RT11. Under the Real Time single user system networks were thought of as a multiuser
thing.
Remember, most RT11 stuff was not using XM monitors and ran on stuff like 11/34s not
11/73s.
Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com>
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Sent: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:47
Subject: RE: [HECnet] DECnet-RT?
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
As a Phase III node it would be DDCMP only ...
I don't remember if it supports any synchronous interfaces ...
There are no device drivers included with RT11 for anything that I
recognize as a synchronous interface, so I would assume it only supported a
standard asynchronous serial port.
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?
Bob