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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-05-22 19:51, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

In a way I'm sure I don't count... But I use Datatrieve-11 over DECnet 
sometimes. And PHONE. And of course, NICE is actually used quite a lot.

   Johnny