[HECnet] Next retro comms project?

[Sampsa Laine]

I thought SNA mostly ran on Token Ring or something?


On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:

There was a SNA product for RSX as well. Don't know if it required special hardware as well.
But I very much doubt anyone will be able to find that now anyway. :-)

	Johnny

Steve Davidson wrote:
It can via the gateway software.   I see several and it appears that many
(if not all) require specialized hardware for the interconnection.   A
search for (vms sna gateway) will point you to the SPD's.
-Steve
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Can VMS talk SNA? If so, I'm in :)
Sampsa
On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:31, Fred wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote:

Where should we go from here? Setting up our own virtual X.25 PSDN   tunnelled over IP maybe? Something crazy with SNA?
SNA! SNA! :)

I could set up Hercules here running MVS 3.8J ... ;)     I'm sure the   folks have been able to get SNA to work within the emulator.   I set   up Hercules and MVS once, but other than a novelty, I really didn't   do much with it, because most of my associates wouldn't know a   mainframe if it ran them over.   I think it would be interesting to   get something quasi-public (on HECmet) going.

Fred

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