Does dropping Decnet mean the the commercial versions like Redhat and any others that you pay support for will also lose Decnet?
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 2, 2022, at 12:12, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 8/2/22 12:42 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> I think the context was TCP as an alternative transport, given the fading >> DECnet support in Linux. And yes, that's an option for Unix and VMS, but >> not for a number of other DEC operating systems that have no TCP option. > > Okay. I hadn't considered other DEC OSs that don't support TCP/IP. > > How prevalent is the use of DEC OSs that don't support TCP/IP? > > Could such use cases suffice with a non-current Linux kernel that still > includes support for DECnet? > > I'm trying to understand how many installations are actually using DECnet in > Linux / how big the potential problem is / will be. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die
