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

[David Froble]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> Michael Moroney wrote:
>> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>> Michael Moroney wrote:
>>
>>>>  Since
>>>> then I wondered, how many customers actually use DECnet V
>>>> (or DECnet IV), and for what.
>>
>>> Then you would know more than most how much effort it will be to keep 
>>> DECnet
>>> around, perhaps without any new work.  Can you answer that question?  
>>> How much
>>> effort is required to keep DECnet on VMS?
>>
>> Now that it builds, essentially zero if there is no new work and no
>> bugs reported.  But we had to be able to build it in case someone
>> does report a bug, and we are to create a version with the fix.
>>
>> Of course, once x86 comes along, we would have to build it (and
>> everything else) for x86.
>>
>> There is always a chance some big VMS project breaks something in
>> DECnet that would require fixing ( = $$$) Perhaps the new file system?
>> I don't know.
>>
> 
> I see no reason why the new file system should break DECnet. I suppose 
> it would require making changes to FAL.

It's not the things we see that are a problem.  We can anticipate and fix such. 
  It's the things we don't see until they bite us on the ass, hard, that are a 
problem.