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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-05-26 kl. 11:45, skrev 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?

Maybe the protocols in NetWare, IPX and SPX?

> 
> [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.
>