[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38"

[Bob Koehler]

In article <lTzJz.665454$uE7.141104 at fx14.ams1>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> So the bottom line is that DECnet is dead, but 40 year old DECnet has 
> functionality that today's IP can not offer to VMS. Or am I wrong?

   It's been many decades now that Gartner has been calling VMS
   dead, but "modern" UNIX can't offer all the functionality that
   VMS does.

   So why should we be surprized?