[HECnet] Next retro comms project?

[Steve Davidson]

This runs over serial (DL, X.25, etc) or parallel links (DR something).   So no Ethernet hardware.   It predates that by quite a while.   Marty Gentry wrote the Ethernet hardware handler (driver) but it was never used for DECnet.   DECnet was cancelled right after he finished it.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Zane H. Healy
Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 10:36
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?

At 6:55 AM -0700 10/21/09, Bob Armstrong wrote:
  * DECnet for RT11.   This is easier at least, because DEC actually sold
such a product, but I don't know if actual kits and documentation for it
still exists.   In either case, I've got PDP-11s and PDP-8s that could be on
HECnet if they had networking software.

As many know finding a copy of this has been a goal I've had for a 
*LONG* time.   I know of one person that might a copy, but last I 
heard, couldn't get to where the floppies were and didn't have time. 
Keep in mind this doesn't run over Ethernet.

Zane



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