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

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 5/22/2023 1:40 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-05-22, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:

>> 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 ? :-)

No, but I can hope!

> 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 ?

Do hypervisors provide a synchronous interface to a guest?

Even if they did, I suspect that we don't provide a synch driver.

I'm pretty sure that IA64 did support a synchronous interface,
and I'm even more sure that we never even discussed supporting
one on X86_64.

I am aware that DECnet will run over an asynch serial line (NODRIVER).

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                    --- Rob