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

[John Forecast]

> On Nov 7, 2021, at 1:50 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
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> 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
> 

There was a company called Technology Concepts in Sudbury MA, which was founded by Stu Wecker the original architect of DDCMP. They provided a core implementation of DECnet for Unix systems (I know they had an implementation for early Sun systems).

  John.

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