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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mddtwb4jwy5.fsf at panix5.panix.com>, Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
> 
> "for some reason"?  Perhaps the fact that Phase IV was announced at the same
> time that the DECSYSTEM-4050 (earlier DECSYSTEM-2090), code name "Jupiter",
> was canceled?  It was only the size of the LCG customer base which forced
> Digital into continuing hardware development until 1988 and software development
> until 1993.

   IIRC, the last release of TOPS-10 was to add ethernet support to the
   DECnet front end.  It actually came a couple years after formal support
   had ended.  We all assumed there was a large customer somewhere that
   wanted some PDP-10s on his ethernet.