[HECnet] DECnet on 4.3BSD/TOPS-20 and other questions

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-22 22:42, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On 22 Oct 2012, at 16:38, "Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:

That is a lot of questions! :-) I have answered only one of them below.

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Subject: [HECnet] DECnet on 4.3BSD/TOPS-20 and other questions

Was anyone ever crazy enough to try to implement any DECnet bits for
4.3BSD?


What part of DECnet do you mean? I have some DECnet Router code out now that
runs a DECnet router in user mode. But it is only the router part, none of
the higher level protocols. If you want to try that there is code for
Windows and for Linux, the latter has been tested on a Debian distribution
(on the Raspberry Pi). I have not tried on BSD and no longer remember the
differences between that and other Unix flavours.

I'm referring to how Ultrix implemented bits of the DECnet protocol suite, I doubted anyone had ported any of it back to something as ancient as 4.3BSD as I highly doubt anyone needed it. :-).

Considering that Ultrix is more 4.2BSD, it's kindof funny to call 4.3 "retro". :-)

But no, as far as I know, DECnet have never been available for any BSD, apart from Ultrix (if you want to call that BSD is another story).

	Johnny

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