[Info-vax] DECnet use in today's world, was: Re: Tangent about DECnet versions.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-19, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 05/19/2018 03:03 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Phase IV and earlier are point-to-point or multipoint and predate 
>> Ethernet support
>
> I really thought that DECnet Phase IV could run over Ethernet.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong.
>

You are not wrong. Ethernet was a day one feature of DECnet Phase IV
as proven by the AA-N149A-TC manual I referenced in the other post
which has a date of May 1982. (I've just checked the date while writing
this response.)

There were apparently some enhancements to DECnet Phase IV which
Stephen calls DECnet Phase IV+ and which apparently never made it
into any printed specifications. Stephen seems to be confusing those
changes with when Ethernet support was introduced into DECnet.

Simon.

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