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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/19/2023 8:09 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

If everybody else had implemented all these protocols, then
maybe DECnet OSI would have been pretty cool.

But noone did.

So the only features one need are the phase IV compatibility
features.

And phase IV already got those.

Arne