On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Steven Whitehouse wrote:

> I think it is probably overdue in the DECnet case, however I 
> did get a very happy with it for the most part. Anyway it is 
> clear that nobody is maintaining it and it seems sensible 
> that it should get removed unless someone with sufficient 
> time wants to step forward. That has not happened so far,

I still have customers with Decnet in production (certain 
medical lab equipment 'just works' and uses the transport); 
until those units die, there will not be sufficient motivation 
on the customers' parts to spend the money to replace it (and 
at that time, a technology refresh will happen as well

eyeglass labs, and colonoscopy testing, primarily

The 'network' for units are physically isolated, and indeed, 
occasionally accessed only via a graphical terminal emulator 
such as VNC, facing into a TCP/IP network on a second 
interface.  No need for updates here

-- Russ herrold
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