[Info-vax] Tangent about DECnet versions.

[Dave Froble]

On 5/19/2018 2:46 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 05/19/2018 12:35 PM, tuklu_san <"supratim sanyal wrote:
>> I am using Phase IV.
>
> I'm curious, does anybody have any idea how prevalent any of the
> following DECnet phases are these days?  Are there any production shops
> still using any version of DECnet?  Or is it relegated to hobbyists?
>
> DECnet Phase I / II / III
> DECnet Phase IV
> DECnet/OSI or DECnet-Plus
>
> I'm just curious from an edutainment perspective.

There is not much of a reason to run DECnet on production systems.  If 
you're going to communicate with trading aprtners, your options are 
TCP/IP and not much else.

Now on development environments, DECnet can be helpful.

One thing I find very helpful is BACKUP over the network.  For me, the 
capabilities are much better than TCP/IP.