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Walter,
The answer is "more-or-less".
We don't explicitly support or fail to support PDP-11s.
There are differences in the ways that various systems respond to
various requests. It even varies between the different implementations
on the PDP-11s.
Your specific question about an error registering an RSX node?
That's a bug. We just discovered that we had broken that in V1.1 and
we've already got a fix in place for our next build so thay you'll be
able to Register and perform most management functions.
That doesn't mean you'll be able to do everything on every node, but we
are trying to get most functions out of available implementations, and
we'd certainly like to be able to register all DECnet nodes, regardless
of what processor they are running on.
We'll probably never handle all of the system specific idiosyncracies
of most of the PDP-11s (as an old RSTS developer, that's painful), but
we are working hard to provide a rich management environment for all
Phase IV nodes, regardless of what processor they run on.
Our priorities have got to be with maximum support of VMS, Ultrix, and
the DECrouter boxes, but the more robust our management is for the
maximum number of Phase 4 implementations, the more pride we'll be able
to take in the DECnet Phase 4 Access Module.
Hope that answers your question....
-Jim Carey
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