[HECnet] "IP protocols on DECnet'

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Nov 8 11:28:24 PST 2021


On 11/8/21 11:05 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>    FWIW, VMS has always had X (windows) over DECnet “out of the box”, at least as long as there has been DECwindows.  It’s even officially supported by DEC…
> 
> Stranger still, I know of an (unsupported) RSTS client application that runs X, over DECnet: the "SDA" interactive crash dump analyzer.  Look in a late version RSTS kit, the "unsupported" package, source file SDA.FTH (that's Forth code).  Kevin Herbert did that magic, a couple of years after I did the original SDA.

   Ok, that's fantastic, how had I not heard of this?  I need to find it 
and fire it up.  Wow!!

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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