[HECnet] Is this the most up to date version of DECnet OS numbers?

[Thomas DeBellis]

Since its inception, Kermit-20 (one the first three Kermit 
implementations) has had the 'limitation' that it will only talk to a 
remote Kermit via a physical terminal line (I.E., something like 
TTY6:).  It doesn't do network terminals in part because it has no code 
to handle the out-of-band or meta-data that one finds on TVT's (like 
IAC's) or CTERM's.

This doesn't exist for the early NRT terminals which were implemented 
for Tops-10 and Tops-20.  Once you've read the initial configuration 
message and decided what to do, you basically never have to bother with 
meta-data.  Because I'm trying to look at an NFT issue between Tops-10 
and Tops-20, I needed another transport mechanism and modifying 
Kermit-20 to do DECnet 36 NRT's seemed like an easy hack.  Since Tops-10 
Kermit isn't making an outgoing connection, it is none the wiser.

Thus far, it has been fairly straightforward.  Right now I'm just 
catching the few cases where certain operations don't make sense or 
otherwise wouldn't work (like setting the terminal speed). Another thing 
I'd like to prevent is Kermit-20 bothering non-36 bit systems.  This is 
easily enough done by checking some 'magic' bits in the initial 
configuration message and restricting by OS type.  This raises two 
questions:

First, is the list below complete?  What about Ultrix and ... what else?

      1    RSTS  2    RT-11  3    RSTS/E  4    RSX-11S  5    RSX-11M
      6    RSX-11D  7    IAS  8    VMS  9    TOPS-20 10    TOPS-10 11   
    RTS-8 12    OS-8 13    RSX-11M+ 14    MCB

Second, the configuration isn't well documented.  Actually, I'm not sure 
if it's documented, period.  All I have is are some notes that Johnny 
wrote up in the process of reverse-engineering it and very kindly gave 
me.  They are certainly fine for this particular implementation, but I 
was just wondering what else there might be. Plenty for LAT and CTERM, 
but I don't think I've stumbled over NRT.

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