[HECnet] My RSTS/E system...

[Paul Koning]

> On Aug 12, 2018, at 8:11 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> By the way, Steve. What version of RSTS/E?
> 
> I noticed another "odd" thing here.
> 
> .set /host=pluto
> 
> NCT -- CTERM is not available on host
> NCT -- Using RMT
> 
> 
> RMT -- Remote Host incompatibility error

The first message from the responding node contains OS and protocol identifiers.  The protocol identifiers, if I read the RSTS client correctly, are RSTS, RSX, VMS, and TOPS-20 protocols respectively (for 1 and up).  TOPS-20 is also used by RT-11; I forgot what Ultrix uses, either RSTS or TOPS-20 protocol I think.

If you run the "official" network terminal client on RSTS, it will give you a very similar message when connecting to non-RSTS because only the RSTS protocol was officially supported.  But the "netuns" client supports all four.  I have a summary of all four protocols somewhere which I used to extend the DECnet/Linux client; or you could use that code as a reference implementation if you need one.

	paul