Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:32:57 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: LAT support (fwd) Message-ID: <199601040432.XAA25754@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199601040253.UAA09723@freebsd.netcom.com> from "Mark Hittinger" at Jan 3, 96 08:53:57 pm
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> > > From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> > > To: Don Whiteside <freelist@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu> > > > Someone just dropped an old DECserver 200/MC on my lap that would be > > > nice to use for some cruddy little dialup, but it (a) needs a loader for > > > the software when it boots up and (2) only does LAT connection. Anyone > > > ever program any LAT support for FreeBSD? > > Nope, and if I remember correctly DEC won't release the specs on LAT, so > > it will probably never happen. > > DECnet may happen, LAT won't. > > Actually the specs for both DECNET, LAT, MAP, DDCMP, etc are fully available. I seem to remember DEC had a patent or something on LAT. I've been out of there for 10 years -- but I could check with friends. I seem to remember they had Bell Atlantic being the Licensing Agent. I really liked the efficiency of LAT and I wished they would've made it an open standard. At one time they had a bootable lat disk (floppy) which turned PDP11's with 64 or so ports into a nice (and now very cheap) terminal server. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |
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