[Linux-decnet-user] Hello
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From: David M. <da...@mi...> - 2004-04-01 18:40:24
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Hello there, I've just joined this list, and I don't know how much time I have to spend on the subject. But I'd like to offer some help if possible and a few comments. - I see that you've rescued a set of DECnet specs from Matt Thomas. They are no longer visible on the HP website. I have a copy of DAP 7.3.1 dated 21-April-1995 (in text and .RNO) that I'd be willing to contribute. You only seem to have V5.6 (which is mostly good enough) I was the DAP Architect for a number of years until Aug 1995 Someone recently gave me a hard copy of a LAT spec. I needed some info for an IETF RFC reference. It was interesting that I could not get a complete answer out of the "official" folks. Seems that LAT is winding down. - I was also the designer/implementor of DECnet-DOS and it's kernel. Though the neurons are a bit rusty, I used to do a DECnet socket programming tutorial at DECUS. I don't know how well your sockets match ours, but I may be able to dig up some old material. - One of the FAQ pages says that "DECnet was designed for the VAX", well I'm sure a few of the contributors could tell you that PDP-11 and DECsystem-10 DECnets predated VMS by a number of years. Most DEC architectures were little endian. The VAX by it's heredity continued that. - Oh Steve W., I did find a use for raw sockets, to implement MOP functions. - I used to like to say I was the last one to implement DECnet Phase-IV, in PathWORKS for Windows 95. (we rewrote my DOS TSR kernel as a protected mode Windows component, because no one else would) Now I find that you guys have taken my claim away. sigh ;^p Dave. |