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

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun Nov 7 12:27:56 PST 2021


On 2021-11-07 16:08, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 10:04 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/7/21 6:17 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> However, extrapolating from this, in NFT/FAL, there is a much more extensive list, which seems to align with this list, which contains:
>> ...
>>> 16 CP/M
>>
>>   Wait, what?  There was a DECnet implementation for CP/M?
> 
> Not necessarily.  Code points were at times assigned to things that never happened.  Consider the Cterm foundation layer which lists RSTS and RT-11, neither of which ever implemented Cterm.  Or OS-8 and RTS-8 in several of those lists; I think DECnet/8 is for RTS-8, but there never was one for OS-8.  (Or is it the other way around?)

Right. And yes, it's RTS-8 that have DECNET-8. OS/8 would be very 
unlikely to ever have anything.

   Johnny

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