[HECnet] Tops-20 ANONYMOUS FAL Preliminary Testing Results/DAP Query

[Johnny Billquist]

I can at least say that most of DECnet in RSX is written in Macro-11.

The only things written in Bliss, that I have found is PHONE, and the 
P/OS network management code.
PHONE is shared with RSX-11M-PLUS, but the P/OS Network Management is 
P/OS only. RSX have a different implementation.

   Johnny

On 2019-12-25 23:44, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> What language did you implement in?  I've got a number of sources in 
> BLISS, some of which don't appear to have originated on the 36 bit 
> platform; perhaps some version of DAP for FTS.
> 
> How did it work between you RSX folks and the people doing whatever was 
> in the DN20's?  The 20 host got up to being a Phase IV router, but I 
> don't believe the DN20's went past Phase III.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On 12/25/2019 12:43 PM, John Forecast wrote:
>>
>> I’ve never seen a Phase I protocol spec but DECnet/8 was probably 
>> closer to Phase I than Phase II although the dates in the source code 
>> appear to cover both phases. Even after Phase II development started 
>> the protocols were still being updated - datagram service was still in 
>> the NSP spec in early 1977 but was dropped about half way through the 
>> development cycle. One advantage we had for DECnet-RSX development 
>> (11M/11S/11D and IAS) was that they all shared common protocol 
>> processing code, which had been written for an earlier advanced 
>> development project, so protocol changes were relatively easy to make.
>>
>>    John.


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