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

[Chris Scheers]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> What was the first version of VMS to have DECnet Phase IV support ?
> 
> With regards to licencing, my knowledge of VMS starts with V5.x so
> I don't know things worked in the pre-LMF days.
> 
> In those days, was DECnet Phase IV a seperate layered product which you
> bought or was it something shipped with VMS which you had to enable by
> means of a patch or similar ?

IIRC, in the VMS 4.x time frame, Phase IV was integrated into the base 
VMS release, but was crippled so that you could only access the local node.

The DECnet "keys" were tapes you installed that replaced one of the 
DECnet executables with a less crippled version.

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