[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <luba6p$rm$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
> Once the OS is up and running, and the compilers are up and running, I'm 
> betting that things such as DECnet IV will just build.  Isn't that the 
> goal for applications?

   At that point, I'd expect the device driver for the NIC not yet
   to be working, unless the exact same NIC is available on both
   IA-64 and x86.  Higher layers I expt will just build.