[Info-vax] decnet guide

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <nu5e69$5o5$1 at dont-email.me>, "Bill Cunningham"
<nospam at nspam.invalid> writes: 

>  The thing is 1996 the oldest guide was published long after tcp/ip was
> introduced. There must've been some kind of need if must've been felt.

Sure there was a need for DECnet.  I know folks still using it today.  
It just has nothing to do with IP.  There was a Fortran manual published 
around the same time.  That doesn't mean that Fortran and DECnet have 
anything to do with each other.  (OK, in Fortran77 the maximum length of 
a variable was 6 characters, and the same goes for DECnet node names, 
but I don't think that DECnet is written in Fortran.)