[HECnet] JBEIL IS UP! (was Re: ULTRIX DECNET LMF?)

Sampsa Laine sampsa at mac.com
Fri Apr 24 14:52:56 PDT 2015


So any chances that the DECNET stuff from 4.0 will work on 4.5 or are the kernel hooks etc totally different?

sampsa


On 24 Apr 2015, at 22:50, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On 04/24/2015 05:48 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>>      I don't know if calling it "insane" is reasonable, Sampsa.  You've
>>>    fired up a thirty-year-old OS and are expecting it to act like it's a
>>>    current OS.  It won't.
>>> 
>>> ​Amen​
>> 
>> You misunderstood me - the experience is just a tad worse than say VMS,
>> I almost get the feeling that this was like their unwanted step child..
> 
>  That it may have been, but honestly, when it was current, it really
> was very competitive overall, when compared to the other UNIX
> implementations that were available.
> 
>             -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
> New Kensington, PA




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