Re: phone

Bob Koehler wrote:
In article <o92dnYufoauMyG7ZnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Froble <davef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
DECnet will work over any transport the cluster traffic will use.

You cannot do host-to-host DECnet communication over DSSI.

Nor can you do many other things, like SET HOST, run MONITOR, send SMTP mail to the Internet, or... And most systems that had host-to-host DSSI also had networking.

Barring older Q-bus systems with the KFQSA (which doesn't have host-to-host) sans a DELQA or DESQA NIC obviously, and I'd expect the numbers of such configurations to be rather small.

Most any of the IRC clients available are the current solution. (I'll admit to having just recently used PHONE a couple of times, however these cases were the first time in years.) I've been up on IRC far more often than on PHONE, as are most other folks these days.

I don't expect to see an IP transport retrofit for PHONE, barring use of DECnet-Plus over IP. And I'd certainly push for an integrated and supported IRC client before the work required to retrofit IP into PHONE, as a supported IRC client certainly provides more widespread compatibility, and as DECnet-Plus can be brought to bear for other configurations needing PHONE.





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