[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV, licencing and old VMS versions

[Bob Koehler]

In article <o0muna$kk8$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

> The Phase IV specifications date from the early 1980s and the Phase III
> specifications appear to be around the 1980 mark (at least for Session
> Control). That would make Phase IV a good number of years younger than
> VMS itself but I don't know when Phase IV actually became available
> for VMS.

   Yes, for some reason Pahse IV actually made it to both VMS and
   RSX-11M/M+ before it made it to TOPS-20, even though most of the
   TOPS-20 routining was done in an 11/34A front end.