[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-11 15:22:57 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article 
> <8da55823-8896-4ef9-a1e9-80ce41019386 at fv9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, 
> Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
>> 
>> The last paragraph reads as if DECnet isn't available over DSSI, did I
>> get that right?
>> (obviously not because it is....).
>> So what wasn't available over DSSI which was over the good old CI?
>> Hans
> 
>    The full WAN capabilities of DECnet are not available over DSSI,
>    but you can set host to a DSSI controller and interact with it.


That capability is not DECnet-based — that's DUP — and that's why I 
expressly called that out.

On the more "recent" VAX boxes, you can connect directly to DSSI 
widgets from the console.



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