[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Dave Froble]

On 9/13/2022 9:14 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2022-09-14 00:59:57 +0000, Dave Froble said:
>
>> Well, yeah, but I learned communications over a serial line ...
>
> I did, too.
>
> With home-grown protocols.
>
> With X/Y/ZMODEM.
>
> With a whole lot of serial wiring hand-soldered together, or later with
> pin-insertion, and checked with a breakout box.
>
> With loading code from audio tape cassettes, and I'm not referring to DDS here.
>
> And variously with busted UARTs, or with PIO activity that saturated the
> processor, or other such.
>
> With a side-trip through SCADA and PLCs, too many of the now-older PLCs and
> controllers having completely demented serial protocols.
>
> Times change.
>
> The newer Ethernet pass-through connectors and crimping tools are better and
> faster than non-passthrough crimping, and all vastly faster and more reliable
> than drilling 10BASE5 taps.
>
> We're all slinging a whole lot more data than we did back then, too.
>
> And with vastly better tooling and apps and networking protocols available.
>
>

Not arguing any of that.  All I was implying was that both sides of a 
communication must insure a successful communication, or, it never happened.

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