<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">VMS phone was a hack by Paul Agnastopolous (sp?) from the VMS mail sources. The other implementations came later. I remember talking to Paul about it. He was very insistent that it was truly a HACK!<br><br><div dir="ltr">-Steve Davidson<div><br></div><div>SF:iP1</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 26, 2019, at 11:18, John Forecast <john@forecast.name> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 25, 2019, at 5:44 PM, Thomas DeBellis <<a href="mailto:tommytimesharing@gmail.com" class="">tommytimesharing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">What language did you implement in? I've got a number of sources
in BLISS, some of which don't appear to have originated on the 36
bit platform; perhaps some version of DAP for FTS.<br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote>As Johnny pointed out, pretty much everything was written in Macro-11. PHONE was not midnight project during Phase III IIRC.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">
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How did it work between you RSX folks and the people doing whatever
was in the DN20's? The 20 host got up to being a Phase IV router,
but I don't believe the DN20's went past Phase III.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Are you talking about MCB? Sometime during Phase III development, we were asked to produce a source kit for LCG. That was pretty much the only interaction we had other than doing certification testing before a release. </div><div><br class=""></div><div> John.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">
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I’ve never seen a Phase I protocol spec but DECnet/8 was
probably closer to Phase I than Phase II although the dates in
the source code appear to cover both phases. Even after Phase II
development started the protocols were still being updated -
datagram service was still in the NSP spec in early 1977 but was
dropped about half way through the development cycle. One
advantage we had for DECnet-RSX development (11M/11S/11D and
IAS) was that they all shared common protocol processing code,
which had been written for an earlier advanced development
project, so protocol changes were relatively easy to make.</div>
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