Linux for "cloud computing": Request for Input

[David Hardy]

Also Process Software's MultiNET, which we were using circa '98-2000 at one
site here in Vermont.



On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> >There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you
> >are an hp software partner, you can get ssh access to a virtual
> >machine running OpenVMS 8.4 EFT.
>
> I did not mean to imply that there was not "good stuff happening with
> VMS"....but VMS is and was not DECnet.
>
> Even when I was there you could see the writing on the wall for DECnet
> as a protocol.  TCP/IP was available for VMS, first through Wollongong
> (boy, I have not thought about them in years!) and then through DEC
> itself with TCP/IP Services for VMS (then TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS,
> now HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS).
>
> BUT people still had LAT boxes, and wanted to use them.  And LAT boxes
> did not speak TCP/IP.  So there were gateway products and such created,
> both by DEC and then by others.  But the gateway products just were not
> the same as "DECnet".
>
> DECnet Linux was just another fine example of FOSS extending the life of
> otherwise forgotten hardware.
>
> I went to the HP site and found the latest version of DECnet OpenVMS
> (Version 7.3).  The date on the manual was May of 1993, one year before
> I met Linus.
>
> DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS (including X.25 support) latest version is 8.3,
> with a date of June 2006.
>
> RIP DECnet Linux!
>
> md
>
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