[HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...

[Thomas DeBellis]

What kind of Phase II node did you test against??  I'm not aware of many.

A VERY long time ago (late 1970's), DEC managed to get Columbia to test 
something called a DN200, which was a DECnet based RJE station.  As it 
was far more expensive than a serial line based printer, we never bought 
it (but never seemed to return it, either).

The vestigial code in LPTSPL is still there, called NURD (Network Unit 
Record Devices) which I was able to adapt to get our 20's to print to 
each either.  Basically I wrote a little server (called LSRV) that 
emulated the NURD interface well enough.  Then I lobotomized some 
strategic parts of the spooler not to notice the difference.  Saved us a 
couple of thousand dollars on line printers in the machine room.

As I recall, that was a Phase II node which downloaded it's code from 
the 20.  Or maybe it was the version of MCB DN20's we had at the time.
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> On 2/25/20 10:53 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> It does work well enough that I was able use it to verify _Phase II_ 
> support.  I plan to add intercept support for talking to non-adjacent nodes, but that isn't in yet.  A primitive version is easy, a proper version is quite a lot harder.
>
> 	paul
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