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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-09-18 18:28, Dirk Munk wrote:
> roger.ivie at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 3:32:44 AM UTC-7, Dirk Munk wrote:
>>>
>>> I will go further then that. By sticking to DECnet Phase IV, you will
>>> affectively kill DECnet. If DECnet is nothing else then an IP port for
>>> your network people, then who cares. If it is a completely different
>>> network environment, it will be all the more reason to kick DECnet and
>>> even VMS out.
>>>
>>> Does this make sense to you?
>>
>> I'll take the blame. I've also been blamed for killing CP/M (by sticking
>> with CP/M 2.2) and WordStar (by sticking with WordStar 4).
>>
>> It's only obsolete when something better comes along.
>>
>
> Yes DECnet is very obsolete for VMS. I'm sorry, I've forgotten this.
> What is the plain IP replacement for something simple as FAL please?

NFS or Samba are the most common ones, but there are many...

	Johnny