[HECnet] Next retro comms project?

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Oct 21 15:41:45 PDT 2009


At 10:07 AM -0400 10/21/09, Steve Davidson wrote:
I have a DECnet kit for RT-11.   From what I remember it is HUGE!
It can not make use of I/D space so at one point RT Engineering stopped
development on it.   When I joined the RT group in 1984 I was supposed to
work on DECnet but within a week of me joining they cancelled the project.
I had a hard time understanding why a company that billed itself as a network connected company would ever cancel such a product!   I wound up doing user-mode utilities and SPR's instead.   Yuch!

Any chance you can image the kit and make it available?   If it's that old it's covered by the Supnik license.   Do you have documentation?

As I just mentioned in a post, I've been looking for this for years!

Zane



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