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

[Scott Dorsey]

Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>I am following this thread with interest because I put
>a bunch of effort getting DECnet V/DECnet Plus to build
>at VSI, what we got from HP was a bit of a mess.  Since
>then I wondered, how many customers actually use DECnet V
>(or DECnet IV), and for what.

It's all gone here, and at all of our customers.

>Of course the VMS builtin where you could access any
>file on your DECnet with almost any software just by
>using the file spec node::dev:[dir.sub]file.ext is
>really great, and is missed on TCP/IP.

Absolutely.   VMS clearly needs some way of doing that
transparently and with file format information preserved.
It doesn't need DECNET underneath to do it though.
--scott
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