8 Nov
2021
8 Nov
'21
3:25 a.m.
On Nov 7, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2021-11-07 18:06, Robert Armstrong wrote:
Right. It was/is slightly more than a toolkit. It does have a couple of processes which
deals with circuits and executor management. And I think there is TLK/LSN so you can
communicate. But beyond that, you were on your own.
And no, OS/8 under RTS-8 don't allow them to be counted as one. :-)
One of the field service offices in New Jersey (Murray Hill perhaps) did a custom
implementation of DECnet for Unix System V for the Bell system. When we started working on
DECnet-SCO, we tried to get access to the code but was told it was considered proprietary
code owned by the Bell system.
John.
I think
DECnet/8 is for RTS-8, but there never was one for OS-8.
Yes, the DECnet-8 was
for RTS although you could run OS/8 as a task under
RTS (so maybe those two count as the same). In any case AFAIK there was
never any NFT or FAL or remote terminal or NCP/NML or anything else like
that implemented for DECnet/8. It was more of a toolkit kind of thing where
you could write your own RTS program to make a DECnet connection to another
node. What you sent over that connection was your problem. Never heard of DECnet for CP/M although there
certainly was one for MSDOS.
Linux is interesting, although I doubt that was put there by DEC. Probably
somebody added it later.
Linux was definitely defined post-DEC. I simply just talked with a Linux FAL from RSX and
checked what value it put in the OS field, and added that to my list from there.
And what the heck is COPOS/11?? I see that is
says TOPS-20 front end, but
I thought TOPS20 used the same RSX20F as TOPS10.
I don't think it's the same as the RSX20F frontend. I have no idea what it is,
but it's in the source files for the RSX DECnet code. Sounds like some oddball thing
that existed somewhere. CSS thing maybe?
And DTF/MVS? Is that the IBM OS MVS?
I almost suspect it might be, but again, no real clue. All I can say is that this is what
is in the RSX sources.
Johnny
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