[HECnet] Speaking of old decnet releases

John Forecast john at forecast.name
Wed Sep 19 11:51:38 PDT 2018


I seem to remember that the last version was Phase III. I’ve been able to build IAS 3.4 on a Raspberry Pi from the tapes on Bitsavers but it’s the full time-sharing system.

  John.

> On Sep 19, 2018, at 2:16 PM, Jeffrey H. Johnson <jhj at trnsz.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
>> 
>> From what I remember it was phase iii.  I used to support IAS-11 between 1980-1983 at the Corporate Operations Group, Maynard, MA
> 
> That's awesome! IAS doesn't get the love it deserves. 
> 
> I'm should to try bringing up an IAS 3.4 system again from the tapes at Bitsavers later tonight - I've previously run 3.0, but had some issue during the SYSGEN on 3.4 — exactly the issue I can't recall right now. 
> 
> But, unfortunately seems it won't able to be on HECnet.
> 
>> -Steve
> 
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> Jeffrey H. Johnson
> jhj at trnsz.com
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