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

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Nov 7 19:38:33 PST 2021


On 11/7/21 10:08 AM, Paul Koning 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?)

   Well, it sure was nice to think about for a moment.  I've always 
loved CP/M.  It warms my cockles just knowing that someone once 
considered it a possibility.

              -Dave, a.k.a. "H.J. Hotcockles"

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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