Re: System UICs

On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:26:11 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

including everybody's favorite [0,0] directory, err, [000000].

I can remember that “[000000...]” was a valid directory wildcard spec, but
“[0,0...]” was not.

Also remember “<” ... “>” was valid for directories, and a dot instead of
semicolon for file versions, à la TOPS-10.

And the auxiliary server (also known as inetd) is another common way to
get processes started under a particular context, as a newer version of
using DECnet task-to-task and objects as was common in yet older
environments.

Is it called inetd on VMS?

I can remember various “inetd” and “xinetd” servers, depending on the
flavour of *nix. Nowadays systemd offers a more modular way of managing
things.

From VMS days, I vaguely remember those numbers you had to specify for
DECnet connections, e.g. “23=” for a remote terminal connection, “0=” or
“task=” for running your own arbitrary remote command, something else for
FAL (remote file access) etc. Other systems soon settled on the idea of
server processes listening for connections on particular ports (e.g. file
servers), but for some reason DEC never cottoned on to that concept.