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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <SgzDz.577571$uE7.160734 at fx14.ams1>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> 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?

   DEC submitted a RFC for a FAL-like capability.  It didn't get adopted.
   ISO/OSI also submitted an RFC for thier equivalent to FAL as
   an IP protocol.  It dwasn't adopted, either.

   In a world where a whole bunch of folks run around on thier
   byte-stream-only file systems caliming "binary always works", the
   recognition of more powerfull file systems with other file organizations
   can't get above the hype.