Goeke@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (04/08/85)
I'm not sure of the validity of this gedanken experiment, but her goes. I've been asked if a) some bodies in my group bought a VAX of some flavor and b) put some version of UNIX on it could c) other persons in the universe who already have VAXen running VMS communiccate with us using DECNET? The motivation is to have the outside world be able to access our data files in some regular fashion. I could conceive of a process running under UNIX which made us look like a DECNET node; I could also conceive of the VMS machines doing a complementary thing. Surely someone has addressed this problem. The folks who asked the question only want to know a) if the job can be done and b) what the magnitude of the task is. Details can wait. Please reply direct; I can always summarize if circumstances demand. Bob Goeke [ Goeke @ MIT-Multics.ARPA ] MIT Center for Space Research Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-1910
gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (04/08/85)
DEC offers DECnet support on ULTRIX-32, which is their supported version of 4.2BSD for the VAX.