[HECnet] PyDECnet File Transfer Support?

[Zane Healy]

> On Dec 22, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 12:14 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> On 2021-12-22 20:59, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>>>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 11:58 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>>>> On 2021-12-22 20:55, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>>>>> I'm imagining a silly future in which there is a native Python implementation of an entire RSX-11 or VMS system. :)
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>>>> Not sure what is meant by that.
>>> I am not, either. It's a half-formed silly idea.
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>> Well... Any idea, no matter how silly, if it includes RSX, I want to hear about it. :-)
>> So, what was/is the idea?
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> I already told you the whole concept! :D A VMS-like or RSX-like shell environment, but implemented in Python and running on any old modern system. It probably doesn't even make sense, but I hope somebody does it anyway. :)

It may not be as crazy as you think.  I’ve been working with a Java based system, that basically implements a complete OS running under Java.  At least that’s how I tend to describe it to folks at work.  Though it’s more like a Mainframe OS, than RSX or VMS.

Zane