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

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-05-21, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <pdq3fs$26h$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> Phase IV and earlier are point-to-point or multipoint and predate 
>> Ethernet support, so those do tend to be somewhat more rare.  Though 
>> undoubtedly a few installations do still exist.
>
>    While those did suport point to point and multipoint, DECnet Phase IV
>    was one of the first protocols we ran over Ethernet.

In 1989 I acquired a VAXstation 2000 with a LAVC license[1].  The system
had both thick and thin Ethernet connectors.  I did manage to get it
talking to a Novell server via a third party product whose name I have
now forgotten.

What protocols would that lot have been talking?

[1] I didn't have a second VMS system to talk to, but the LAVC license
gave me the ability to fire up Phase IV and do SET HOST nodename, test
apps with nodenames as part of filenames etc.

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