[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

[Johnny Billquist]

DECnet works fine with only serial communication. Including remote booting.

And RSX-11S did not need much hardware resources, so I could easily see that working on a Minc or an 11/03.

  Johnny 


Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> skrev: (21 december 2017 07:45:02 CET)
>Correct, neither the MINC-11 nor MiniMINC had a network interface. I
>used
>to own a MiniMINC (PDT-11/150) years ago.
>It's serial only. The MINC, I believe, was just an 11/03 with serial
>ports,
>A/D and D/A, and GPIB (oh, and dual floppies).
>They were both meant for lab work and analyzing and graphing sampled
>data,
>and had no networking capability. Given that, I'm confused as to how
>any
>MINC documentation would mention DECnet and RSX11S, unless there was
>some
>later version of the system that I'm not aware of.
>
>Regards,
>-Mark
>
>
>
>On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com>
>wrote:
>
>> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > All,
>> >    I have a question on DECnet for RT-11. Documentation that came
>with a
>> MINC-11 says that RT-11 had a Phase III compatible DECnet. Does
>anyone out
>> there happen to have a copy of it? It would be great to be able to
>connect
>> my MINC-11 as an end-node and transfer files to my 11/83.
>>
>> I’ve been searching for a copy for nearly 20 years.  As I understand
>it,
>> it only supported serial lines, not ethernet.
>>
>> Zane
>>
>>
>>
>>

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