[HECnet] DECnet Phase-III anywhere?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-08 19:29, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:

On Feb 8, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

On 2013-02-08 15:54, Steve Davidson wrote:
Bob,
Why Phase-III?

I think it was an implication for the time period he was looking for. Phase IV would be too new. And phase II do not have MOP, as far as I know.

I think Phase II does have MOP, and it looks like Phase I does, also.   Look in the revision history of the MOP spec.   While the latest (Phase IV, V3.0.0) spec does not show the dates of the versions, the previous one (Phase III, V2.1.0, in document AA-K178A-TK) does. It mentions V1.1 was dated January 1976 and V2.0.0 was March 1978.   That fits the dates for Phase I and Phase II respectively, I believe.   And the revision history mentions a change to a download protocol message between V1.1 and V2.0, implying that download was part of the 1/1976 edition of MOP.

Interesting. Definitely more than I know. I only saw the mention that MOP (or atleast downline loading) was added in phase III on the Wikipedie page about DECnet. Which is a rather shaky source...

	Johnny