[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 12:23:48 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-08-02, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
> >
> > New additions targeted for the 26-August V9.0-D release are:
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >      DECnet IV
> 
> Seriously ? That's a priority target ? How many of you are still using
> this in production for VSI to justify porting it at this time ?
> 
> The only place that stack should be is in the computer history museum.
> 
> I hope VSI are giving the stack itself a good audit while porting it
> because if the TCP/IP stack suffers from security issues, then you
> can safely assume the DECnet Phase IV stack does as well (just like
> any other networking stack does).
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

I tried my best to ditch DECnet on x86 but there are just too many customers using it (we asked, it was very disappointing).