On Jul 16, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Antonio Carlini
<a.carlini at ntlworld.com> wrote:
...
The specs were (and are) freely available. (I'm not 100% sure that they were
free-as-in-beer back then, but they are now).
I assume you had to pay for the cost of printing. They could be freely reproduced,
though, it says so explicitly.
There was at least one implementation for Linux and (I
think ...) another for Solaris. cisco also supported DECnet in some of
their switches.
Yes, and for that matter, there was a commercial non-DEC DECnet, by Stuart Wecker I think
-- he was involved with DDCMP way back when.
...
(I'm assuming that Phase II existed at some point before Phase III, which definitely
did exist. I also
assume that Phase I only acquired that designation once Phase II appeared!)
I suppose so. Rumor had it that Phase I only existed on RSX, but it appears that there
was a PDP-8 implementation as well. Phase II was implemented on lots of DEC systems, from
TOPS-10 to RT-11 to RSTS/E. My initial involvement with DECnet was as the DECnet/E kernel
guy, upgrading DECnet/E from Phase II to Phase III.
paul