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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECServer and DECnet incompatibility??
Message-ID: <3240@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 87 21:29:46 GMT
References: <8712222310.AA00987@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: tedcrane@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Organization: Tompkins County Computing, Ithaca, NY
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In article <8712222310.AA00987@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MANAGER@SKIDMORE.BITNET (Leo Geoffrion) writes:
>Some internal DEC documentation for the DECserver 500 suggest that it may
>Is it indeed impossible to connect asynchronous DECnet on top of LAT-11?
>Has anyone seen a work-around for this?  I'd really hate to have to go back
>to reinstalling our old DZ-11's.

Bullseye.  As of the last time I tried this (DECnet via LAT), it didn't quite
work.  DEC documents it as not working.  Typically, DECnet will come up briefly,
then fail when you start using it in a non-trivial manner.  Sometimes i fails
without even being used.

I had quite a series of conversations with DEC folk about this limitation,
commenting on the dilemma between DEC's current steering of customers toward
LAT terminals, but not supporting async DECnet on them.  It is a big dilemma
when you take into account the proliferation of cheap, standalone VAXen
which can reasonably connect to the office network only by telephone line.

Unless someone submits an article to contradict your and my experience, why
don't we all continue pushing Dr. DEC on this issue.  It needs changing!