17 May
2021
17 May
'21
1:13 p.m.
On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was
for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the
380/350/325 boxes.
That's how I remember it as well. I think the DEC notion was that a Pro wasn't
powerful enough to do routing, and on top of that it's hard to configure it with
enough ports to make it interesting. In theory it could do Ethernet to 9600 baud sync
DDCMP, and if you really want to stress the poor little CPU you could try to add a few
async DDCMP lines (on the quad UART card). I don't know if DECnet/Pro supports
anything other than Ethernet, though.
I have my Pro/RSTS system running as a router, on two serial ports, though only one is
active right now. The main reason I set it up that way is so it would allow me to turn on
the second line, for use as a test data source.
paul