[Info-vax] VMS 8.4-2L1 on AXPBox

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-05-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 5/18/2023 10:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Time to try DECnet Phase V for the first time in my life.  And BTW,
>> Bill, Phase V includes backward compatibility with Phase IV.  So if
>> you want to talk to RSTS/E Phase IV it should work.  Older ones that
>> are Phase III would not work.
>
> I don't see Phase V providing anything useful that Phase IV
> does not provide - and everything is just more complex to
> configure in V.
>

DECnet Phase V is how Heath Robinson would have designed a networking
protocol.

Simon.

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