Archives : May-2016

What is it? The DECserver 200 is a “terminal server”. It enables up to 8 terminals to login to various DEC computer systems over an Ethernet link. Back in the day a DECserver it was used to connect terminals and printers to DEC systems.  Typically these were VAX machines, though some PDP-11 systems also supported ..

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I have a few VAX/VMS DECnet machines with node addresses in Area 4. Their full DECnet node addresses are 4.200, 4.202, etc.  When I connect a DECnet machine in Area 33 (full address 33.13) to the same Ethernet segment, each of the Area 4 machines can see each other over DECnet, but the 33.13 machine ..

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