Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

> On May 28, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-05-28 21:19, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
>> Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost writes:
>> 
>>> And DECnet nodes exist around the Internet; the “Hobbyist DECnet”
>>> group (“hecnet”) is the main focus of that activity as far as I know.
>> 
>> ...and while I'm sure Johnny Billquist can supply more details, and
>> correct me if I'm wrong, DECnet on NetBSD seems to me to be an active
>> component of the hecnet environment.
> 
> Nope. NetBSD do not run DECnet. I run a bridge program, which I initially developed on NetBSD, but it runs on pretty much anything.

Your’s don’t. :)  

> I also hack NetBSD/VAX on and off, but it's becoming more and more "off" with every new development within NetBSD. But that's a different story.

Sigh.

> Oh, and DECnet on Linux is not so great either, and I believe it has been dropped from the main tree.
> But if anyone wants to try and get NetBSD to talk DECnet, Paul and me can certainly help in many ways.

I have a Phase IV+ (so I didn’t have to much with the physical address) implementation but never got around to writing the apps.  socket interface is identical to DECnet-ULTRIX.  DAP is a beast as is CTERM.  I could run IP protocols over, but then I have IP for that. :)

I never committed it because I doubted there was interest.  It’s probably bit rotted but I could resurrect it.

In a world a long time ago I was one of the kernel engineers for DECnet for ULTRIX and OSF/1 (nee Digital UNIX). It was one reason I could stand the netiso code because it was so horrible.