15 Jul
2001
15 Jul
'01
7:58 p.m.
Eric Dittman wrote:
I didn't think the DEMSA would route DECnet; will
a DESNB?
The DEMSA was sold as (at least):
DECrouter 2000 - Phase IV DECnet router
X25 Router 2000 - Phase IV X.25 and DECnet router
WANrouter 500 - Phase V (OSI) DECnet router
X25gateway 500 - Phase V (OSI) X.25 gateway (no decnet routing)
(It's been a long time, so names and numbers
are only approximate ...!)
There were also variants with different numbers to
run on the single port hardware (DEMSB). So there
was (IIRC) an X25gateway 100 for the DEMSB.
It could also run SNA software but I had nothing
to do with that. The original SNA software would
have been for a Phase IV environent. There may
have been a later version for a Phase V environment
but I don't think there would have been a need for that.
The DESNB was a MicroVAX 3600 with some
sort of IBM channel connect. Basically
a DEMSA with a big pipe into the IBM
box. AFAIK the only software that ran on this
was the SNA software.
Antonio
arcarlini(a)iee.org