[Info-vax] Tangent about DECnet versions.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-05-21 kl. 02:58, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2018-05-20 06:37:11 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> There's also that BACKUP and other parts of OpenVMS haven't yet adopted and 
> integrated IP networking, sure.   Hopefully IP integration gets looked at 
> sooner rather than later.
> 
> There's also that OpenVMS doesn't offer nor commonly use remote file shares 
> via IP, outside of NFS.  No SMB, no WebDAV, etc...

See the second PDF from the top here: http://wasd.vsm.com.au/other/
"Implementing a WebDAV Server using WASD on OpenVMS".