22 Feb
2026
22 Feb
'26
8:25 a.m.
On Feb 22, 2026, at 10:30 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I think the DECnet-RT client software to connect an RT-11 node to another
DECnet node is (hopefully now: was) missing.
The DECnet-RT SPD is available at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/decnet/decnetRT/
The SPD says it is DECnet Phase II.
I would love to lay my hands on DECnet-RT as well as on DECnet/8!
Ulli
Some faint memory says that DECnet/RT might have made it to Phase 3 (endnode only), but I
don't know if that was just a proposal or possibility. Or to put it differently, I
think part of the motivation for the existence of end nodes was to handle tiny systems
like RT11.
As for a copy, an old email mentions this:
On 2018-09-19 15:59, Paul Koning wrote:
Paul, I don't know where it originally came from, but on
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp8/pdp-8/fromnichols have a decnet8.exe, which is a self
extracting zip archive with the files.
But if you are on HECnet (or else telnet to mim.update.uu.se
<http://mim.update.uu.se/> and log in as guest), and check MIM::US:[DECNET8], you
have the already unpacked files available.
Johnny
I have a copy of the manual, which some searching tells me came from John Wilson's
archives: http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/doc/decnet8.doc that includes a protocol
specification. The code does not exactly match it, but it's quite close.
paul
On Sep
18, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)softjar.se
<mailto:bqt@softjar.se>> wrote:
There is a phase ii release for rts-8. How easy it would be to get it up and running
might be a different story, but the sources are on the internet.
Where on the Internet?
I've never used RTS-8, nor for that matter any PDP-8, but with some luck I should be
able to read that code and that would be interesting, too.
paul