was Re: [HECnet] TOPS-10 and DECnet Progress Update

[G.]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 18:05:52 +0000, <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> wrote:

Because CTERM was designed, in essence, as a remote procedure call 
representation of the VMS terminal driver features.   The ones in TOPS-10 are 
entirely different -- just consider the way carriage return echoes.

IIRC you once wrote that RTERM is really four (or was it three?) different
protocols: one for TOPS-10, one for RSX, one for RSTS, and I'm not sure if the
fourth was about TOPS-20 or if that was included in one of the above.

Unfortunately, RTPAD.EXE on OpenVMS 8.x has a bug that prevents it to connect
to older systems such as TOPS-10 and RSTS, but not to VMS (in RTERM mode).

The affected image has ident X-10. Instead ident X-9 (VMS 7.x) works. Now I'm
just trying to see if an AXP VMS 7.3 image works on 8.3...

G.