From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 21:53:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA17608 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:53:22 -0700 Received: from mg1.cdsnet.net (osyjm@mg1.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA17602 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:53:21 -0700 Received: (from osyjm@localhost) by mg1.cdsnet.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) id WAA02386; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:40:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:40:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Terry Lambert cc: "Andreas S. Wetzel" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Q: Does anyone know about implementing LAT support? In-Reply-To: <9504200152.AA21901@cs.weber.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > I believe the DECServers, if downloaded by a VAX, will also support > non-LAT CTERM protocol connections -- CTERM is much easier to implement, > and you can buy the documentation for it and the underlying protocols > for about $180.00 for all the books you would need. This is incorrect. If you have a DEC server 200, you are stuck with LAT only. If you have 700's, or 900TM's, you can get LAT, SLIp, PPP, and a couple others, but no DECnet. > I don't think anyone is planning on reverse engineering LAT and then > releasing it publically any time soon; DECNet would be a nice thing > for BSD to have, though... I think Matt Thomas one time rambled about maybe doing this. I have no idea how complex it would be. Implementing, and actually having to use NCP gives me the cold sweats