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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/19/2023 8:15 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

I mean what does people use from DECnet today.

SET HOST
node + username + password in RMS file spec
maybe proxy access
maybe tast-to-task comm

That is probably 99.9% of usage.

Arne