buehring%ti-csl%csnet-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (02/01/84)
From: Walt Buehring <buehring%ti-csl@csnet-relay> [Sorry if this subject has gone around before but we just joined the net....] Is anything available that will allow a Unix system to act as a DECNET node? (it doesn't need to do routing) We have several VMS Vaxen (sad, I know) and considering getting a Unix system but don't want it to be and island among our `normal' systems. Thanks, Walt <buehring.ti-csl@csnet-relay>
lauren%rand-unix@vortex.UUCP (02/01/84)
While there's nothing available to run DECNet on Unix, my VMS UUCP will allow your Unix system to communicate easily with your VMS systems, thusly avoiding the "island" effect you fear. It also will let your VMS sites communicate with other UUCP sites if you'd like. The current plan is for DEC to distribute this software, by the way. --Lauren--
jab@uokvax.UUCP (02/08/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1623400:uokvax:6100018:000:970 uokvax!jab Feb 5 21:18:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.unix / sri-arpa!lauren@rand-unix / 6:42 pm Feb 2, 1984 */ While there's nothing available to run DECNet on Unix, my VMS UUCP will allow your Unix system to communicate easily with your VMS systems, thusly avoiding the "island" effect you fear. It also will let your VMS sites communicate with other UUCP sites if you'd like. The current plan is for DEC to distribute this software, by the way. --Lauren-- /* ---------- */ Before I start cheering for the VMS "uucp", which can hopefully make some of life a little easier for some friends STUCK with VMS, let me ask the all-important question: If DEC is going to distribute it, what's in it for them? How much will it cost? It wouldn't be very nice if DEC charged $5000 for a "new dialup-network facility" that turned out to be Lauren's uucp. (This isn't a shot at Lauren, but a reply hoping that the VMS "uucp" is available to [poor] universities at moderate cost.) Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL