[Info-vax] DECnet, was: Re: YouTube channel dedicated to OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-09, Roy Omond <roy at omond.net> wrote:
> On 08/11/16 14:11, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> [...snip...]
>> Also, does _anyone_ ever use a DECnet Phase IV area other than
>> area 1 ? :-) (I'm assuming no one is still running multi-area DECnet
>> networks in production these days.)
>
> Ahem, one of my customers (a *big* one) is very much still using
> multi-area DECnet (world-wide). Just checked and I can see node
> 47.101 from 5.14 :-)  Mixture of Phase IV and V.
>

That's interesting, thanks. Are you allowed to say what they use it
for and what applications are actually using DECnet ?

Thanks,

Simon.

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