On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:09 PM, R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > >> I think it is probably overdue in the DECnet case, however I >> did get a very happy with it for the most part. Anyway it is >> clear that nobody is maintaining it and it seems sensible >> that it should get removed unless someone with sufficient >> time wants to step forward. That has not happened so far, > > I still have customers with Decnet in production (certain > medical lab equipment 'just works' and uses the transport); > until those units die, there will not be sufficient motivation > on the customers' parts to spend the money to replace it (and > at that time, a technology refresh will happen as well > > eyeglass labs, and colonoscopy testing, primarily > > The 'network' for units are physically isolated, and indeed, > occasionally accessed only via a graphical terminal emulator > such as VNC, facing into a TCP/IP network on a second > interface. No need for updates here Are those units or anything that needs to talk to them over DECNet running Fedora? josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
