Re: decnet versions

["Zane H. Healy" <healyzh@aracnet.com>]

Paul Koning writes:
>>>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy <healyzh@aracnet.com> writes:
>
> Zane> OTOH, Paul Koning probably is right about CTERM being the
> Zane> reason I can't get the two to log into each other.  I'm
> Zane> currently trying to figure out what network terminal protocol
> Zane> RSX-11M is using, unfortunatly the set of PDP-11 DECnet doc's
> Zane> I've got access to right now is for RSTS/E.
>
>I've never seen documentation for *any* of the pre-Cterm decnet
>terminal protocols.  They aren't all that complex; perhaps I'll be
>able to reverse engineer them from the information I have on RSTS/E.

I got the following info from John Wilson on the Classic Computer mailing list:
>Someone was just telling me about this recently.  I forget the details, but
>apparently CTERM and LAT covering the whole spectrum of network terminal
>protocols is a VMS-only phenomenon, the PDP-11 OSes are utter chaos with
>each one having its own TTY protocol(s).  I could have it wrong but it sounds
>like CTERM isn't going to do the trick.

So it sounds like even if it will talk to RSTS/E for example (and
unfortunatly I'm not sure anyone on the list has access to a RSTS/E system
at the moment), that it still wouldn't be able to talk to RSX-11M or RT-11
systems.  Although I have gotten the impression RT-11 wouldn't really
matter as DECnet is no longer available for DECnet, and you can get a free
TCP/IP implementation for RT-11.

			Zane
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