Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 5 14:48:04 2002

>ISTR hearing mention a while back that the remote diag console on the 6K
>VAXen spoke a flavor of serial DECnet. Any experience with something like
>that? It would be useful, or at least interesting, to provide a remote
>console for them.

The remote diag consoles spoke (I guess) plain
serial between the console and the local DEC
Remote Diagnostic Console box and some
undocumented, secret (and now probably forgotten)
protocol between the RDC and its partner unit
at the support centre.

As for running DDCMP over the console line, it's
probably possible but usually not a good idea
(the console line is usually deliberately pretty dumb,
the principle being that it's harder to screw up that
way).

Antonio
 
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