[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-11 07:54:11 +0000, Hans Vlems said:

> DECnet over DSSI works fine, provided you get the incantations right.
> All I tried was CTERM and FAL and both worked as expected (reliable
> albeit slow).
> Another example of an undocumented, unsupported feature that works
> alright.

Not that there is even a remote chance of seeing DSSI gear around, nor 
any likelihood of IP over FC nor connections, but...

If you ran any tests[1] with that, how well does that "albeit slow" 
connection perform as compared with slow Ethernet?  CI wasn't known for 
its network performance, as compared with DECnet over even then-current 
10 Mb Ethernet, and usual recommendations back then had CI at higher 
cost as a backup connection.  I can't see DSSI being much better in 
that regard.

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[1]DTSEND (DTS) and DTRECV (DTR) were the testing tools for DECnet.  
Those were documented in the network management manual.

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