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

[Jason Stevens]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
Was anyone ever crazy enough to try to implement any DECnet bits for 4.3BSD?

I doubt it was very highly demanded, thus the "crazy" bit. I'd consider trying to implement it myself, but I don't know C, BSD internals, or in-depth DECnet info and the craziest I've done is gotten a crippled Perl 5 built on Quasijarus. (while i'm on that topic, anyone ever manage to build autoconf/automake on 4.3BSD?) My eventual end goal is to build irssi on 4.3BSD and ignoring the fact it's pretty much impossible.

I've just built the old ircII stuff... and that was involved to say the least.   the University of  Wisconsin version of 4.3 BSD seemed more usable as its got some SUN magic in there like NFS and various other cleanups ...  

I haven't looked at irssi as I'd imagine it'd be ... involved.