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

[Dave McGuire]

On November 7, 2021 12:06:50 PM "Robert Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
>> I think DECnet/8 is for RTS-8, but there never was one for OS-8.
>
>  Yes, the DECnet-8 was for RTS although you could run OS/8 as a task under
> RTS (so maybe those two count as the same).  In any case AFAIK there was
> never any NFT or FAL or remote terminal or NCP/NML or anything else like
> that implemented for DECnet/8.  It was more of a toolkit kind of thing where
> you could write your own RTS program to make a DECnet connection to another
> node.  What you sent over that connection was your problem.
>
>
>  Never heard of DECnet for CP/M although there certainly was one for MSDOS.

  I used DECnet/DOS for many years both at home and at work. It worked well.

  There's also a DECnet implementation for IRIX, which I ran at work long ago.  It was called 4DDN.

                     -Dave

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