[HECnet] VAX/VMS 1.50

[Steve Davidson]

I was working in Software Services (Maynard, MA) in the summer of 1980.
VAXWRK:: (VMS) was connected to ASTRIX:: (RSX) via DMC-11.   ASTRIX:: was
charged with routing out of the building (PK2) using another DMC-11.   I
do remember it was a rather bumpy road for a while but eventually they
got it right.   SET HOST worked well enough for me to connect to the
other remote sites in MA and NH that I only had to travel once a week.
Otherwise I would have been travelling much more often.

-Steve


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Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 1.50


On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:


On 04/04/2013 04:45 PM, hvlems wrote:
No ethernet in '79, no phase IV. So a DU11?

Hmmmm.   Does SIMH emulate that?

It doesn't look like it does.   And I don't know that VMS ever supported
that device, anyway.   RSX did, but various other systems tended to stay
away from it because of the high software overhead.   I do know that VMS
supports DMC-11 (or DMR-11, essentially the same at the driver level),
and there is support for that in the in-development release of SIMH.

	paul