[Info-vax] DESPERATELY SEEKING VAX-CDs (WAN-Drivers, VAX-PSI)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-05-22, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/2023 5:44 AM, arca... at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, 21 May 2023 at 22:06:56 UTC+1, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> Are you going to connect to a PSDN? I'm pretty sure that X.25 over TCP/IP was
>>> done about a decade after the version of VAX PSI that you're running.
>> 
>> XOT for OpenVMS Alpha was done ~200/2001, at the same time that I think I was doing the GAP client for OpenVMS Alpha.
>> 
>> I need to get signed up for the x86 Hobbyist program so I can see if I can get x86 XOT going at some point :-)
>   
> Well, I haven't ported X.25 to X86 yet; it hasn't been requested by any customers yet.
>

:-)

Do you think it's _likely_ to be requested by any x86-64 customers ? :-)

On a more serious note, I wonder if I might get depressed if I ask
what obsolete oddball[*] protocols people _are_ planning to run on
a nice modern x86-64 VMS system.

For example, is anyone planning to run DDCMP on x86-64 VMS ?

[*] Something other than the usual candidates such as Telnet or
Ethernet based DECnet. For example, DDCMP, SNA, SLIP, etc.

Simon.

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