DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

[Bill Degnan]

On Mon, May 17, 2021, 4:58 PM John Forecast via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> > 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.
> > While that memory might be incorrect, are there any DecNet packages
> > for the Pro family available anywhere?
> > a few hours of searching did not turn up any thing but PDFs about the
> software.
> > thanks in advance for any replies.
> > bob
>
> I’m almost certain that it was an end-node only implementation. Eventually
> it was released through Decus as PRO175. There appears to be disk copies
> available at:
>
>
> http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/mirror/os2site/sw/dec/pro/pro175/index.html
> <
> http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/mirror/os2site/sw/dec/pro/pro175/index.html
> >
>
> You’ll need to be running P/OS V3.2 so you might want to grab a copy of
> PRO177 at the same time.
>
>



 Maybe I am misunderstanding, but why would the pro be anything but more
> decnet-able?

Bill

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