[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[David Froble]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> David Froble wrote:
>> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> On Saturday, August 30, 2014 1:33:42 AM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
>>>> Make DECNET native on IP. Get an IP port defined for DECNET, and then
>>>> change NCP to have IP addresses instead of node/area numbers. Traffic
>>>
>>> Hi JFM,
>>>
>>> Just curious,
>>> How much money (order of magnitude, 100K$, 1M$, 10M$) have you, the
>>> company you work for, or the companies you work with, spend on OpenVMS
>>> or related hardware in the past 10 years? What is the expectation on
>>> for the next 10 years.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Hein
>>>
>>
>> Now, you may feel that this type of put down is relevant.  It is NOT!
>>
>> Not saying that JF always has good questions, but such a reply is not
>> the way to respond.
>>
>> If you cannot be just a bit more pleasant, then just STFU!
> 
> Well, Hein does have a point.

No, he just has a worn out "put down".

While JF may not spend large amounts, he might have products that many 
people use, on many VMS systems.

Ask, me how much I spend.  The answer is nothing.  But, I have products 
used by others, who do spend significant amounts.

No, I do not agree with the discussion on any work on DECnet.  Those who 
use it must be satisfied with it, and those who don't use it don't care. 
  If you want to have the DECnet IV capabilities, it's a rather light 
load on a system.  If there is going to be any effort, I'd rather see it 
put into TCP/IP, which would benefit the most users.