[HECnet] "IP protocols on DECnet'

[John Forecast]

> On Nov 8, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-11-08 16:56, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>> In  the "old days" we did SMTP over DECnet, has anyone considered doing 
>> Telnet, FTP, HTTP etc over
>>> DECnet transport?
>>   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…
> 
> X using DECnet as a transport was defined from day 0, since DEC was heavily involved in the X development, and wanted it in the DEC environment as well.
> 
> I've never looked into it, but I wonder how similar the protocol is over TCP compared to DECnet. It might be more or less identical, but it could also have some differences...
> 

Once I got DECnet-Ultrix mostly working, I took the code down to the DEC offices for Project Athena at MIT. They built a version with DECnet support - the screen came up OK but moving the mouse around left pieces of random data on the screen. It became a very useful test tool.

  John.

>  Johnny
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