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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-18, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2016-11-18, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2016-11-18, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> It always was a separate layered available in two versions, end-node and 
>>> with routing enabled.
>>>
>>> In the beginning it would have been distributed on tape, and you would 
>>> have installed it with the vmsinstall procedure.
>>
>> Thanks. I suppose the next question would be when was DECnet added to
>> the base VMS installation kits. Was that with VMS 5.0 and the LMF ?
>
> That's what I'm trying to remember.  I definitely recall DECnet being
> pulled into the base distribution at some point.  I'm pretty sure that
> when that first arrived, you still needed a distribution tape[1] to
> install it, but that tape really only contained an enabling key for
> either an end node or routing licence.
>

Thank you everyone.

This was all before my time and it's been very useful to get some
answers on the history of DECnet on VMS and when things settled
down into the DECnet on VMS situation that we have today.

Thanks,

Simon.

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