Re: [Linux-decnet-user] [OT] DECnet Phase IV or DECnet Plus?

[Kenn H. <ke...@li...>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 02:31:49PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> Note that DECnet phase 5, or whatever they call it, is supposed to
> include backwards compatibility with phase 4.  So if you need to talk
> to a DECnet/Linux box (which is phase 4) that is supposed to work.
> Give or take bugs, of course, as usual.  But unlike certain other well
> known software vendors, DEC has always made backwards compatibility a
> non-negotiable software requirement.

You can sing it!  I remember hearing that DEC used .EXEs linked on VMS
v1.0 as part of the regression test suite for each new release of VMS.

They even managed to move from 9.3 file names to 32.32 without much
grief, unlike some other compan~1.

Later,
Kenn