[Info-vax] DSW41/42 option

[Tim E. Sneddon]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
>> On Oct 12, 6:46 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Volker Halle wrote:
>>>> A DSW41/42 is a SYNCHRONOUS WAN device. You can't configure this
>>>> device with standard OpenVMS drivers, you need to install the VAX WAN
>>>> Device Drivers kit.
>>>> Volker.
>> >
>> And, what are you supposed to actualy *do* with it ?
>>
>> You can talk DECnet (specifically, DDCMP iirc) to a compatible DECnet
>> box, or X.25 to the outside world, typically.
> 
> OK, right. What I ment was maybe more something like, what are
> you supposed to actualy do with it *today* ?
> 
> I do know what it was used for 20 yrs ago...
> 

There's probably someone around who still uses X.25.  It was only a
few years ago that Ford Australia switched off their X.25 service
and moved to IP.  Of course, they were still using Burroughs at the
time too.  It's entirely possible that they still are.

Tim.