Yeah. WIth RSTS/E V8, asynch DDCMP is out of the quesion. Does it support ethernet? Hmm, what phase is it? Johnny Mark Abene wrote: Unfortunately, given my preference to using RSTS/E v8, I must use DECnet/E v2.0. Those DECnet drivers only support a DMC or DMR device (seen as "XM" in RSTS), or a DMP or DMV device (seen as "XD" in RSTS). Based on what you're saying, the patch would not solve this problem? Paul Koning wrote: Excerpt of message (sent 20 August 2009) by Mark Abene: Serious? Are you actually emulating a DMC11? I'm intrigued... Yes. Or rather, the terminal driver contains an implementation of the DDCMP protocol. So it can talk to async DDCMP devices -- just as RSX did for years. Until V10, DECnet/E only did DMC/DMR type DDCMP devices. On a Pro, which has a USART (not UART) console port, it even speaks sync DDCMP if you want so it can talk to a DMC or DMR (and that works, I tested it). On other PDP-11s it will use any of the async lines and speak async DDCMP. paul -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol