[Info-vax] Tangent about DECnet versions.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pdqfff$g6c$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> 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.

Right.  Yes, it is insecure, but offers more possibilities than TCP/IP, 
whether the secure version or not.  I see no reason not to use it within 
a private network (and it would be difficult to use it in a really 
public network).