[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing
chris
chris-nospam at tridac.net
Fri Jul 23 12:36:39 EDT 2021
On 07/23/21 16:36, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/23/2021 8:00 AM, gah4 wrote:
>> I don't know about openness, but I remember stories from the early
>> VAX days on how expensive it was. Expensive enough that people
>> would not network VAX systems because of the price.
>
> As I recall it then DECnet came with VMS.
>
> But TCP/IP was an extra license and way back an expensive
> license.
>
> Arne
>
>
Full decnet was an expensive layered product, from memory, though
a subset and run time libraries did come with vms.
Had a look at decnet at one stage, but already has tcp/ip on several
machines here, so ended up with the third party Wollongong TCP/IP,
from Oz, iirc. Got the job done, but the lack of industry standard,
shipped with the machine networking, was a serious impediment for
Vax and VMS.
The network was and still is the computer etc...
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