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

[Chris Townley]

On 23/05/2023 22:50, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
> 

I certainly use set host, file copying, and used to use remote execution 
with the task object

I can use scp etc, but DECNET is much easier. Not worried about 
security, as none of my VMS systems are exposed

-- 
Chris