mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (02/20/87)
In article <827@maynard.BSW.COM>, campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes: > In article <3423@cae780.TEK.COM> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes: >> ... I doubt that there are VMS protocols available under unix >> (except [...]) since the protocols are proprietary, but ftp/telnet >> under VMS is quite possible. > Wrong - the DECnet protocols are not proprietary. They are publicly > available, and anyone is free to use them to implement DECnet. Goodie! Where can I get copies? I found some documentation but it was very old and definitely didn't match what I saw flying around on the Ethernet. der Mouse USA: {ihnp4,decvax,akgua,utzoo,etc}!utcsri!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse Europe: mcvax!decvax!utcsri!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse ARPAnet: think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse@harvard.harvard.edu
ted@blia.UUCP (02/23/87)
In article <661@mcgill-vision.UUCP>, mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: > In article <827@maynard.BSW.COM>, campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes: > > Wrong - the DECnet protocols are not proprietary. They are publicly > > available, and anyone is free to use them to implement DECnet. > Goodie! Where can I get copies? The DNA functional specs are available from DEC. These are the DEC order numbers on my copies (I think they are current): AA-N149A-TC AA-X440A-TK AA-Y298A-TK AA-X435A-TK AA-X439A-TK AA-K182A-TK AA-X437A-TK AA-X436A-TK The first is the network arch. general description. The rest are functional specs for various layers. =============================================================================== Ted Marshall Britton Lee, Inc. p-mail: 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030 voice: (408)378-7000 uucp: ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!ted ARPA: mtxinu!blia!ted@Berkeley.EDU disclaimer: These opinions are my own and may not reflect those of my employer; I leave them alone and they leave me alone. fortune for today: Everyting should be built top-down, except the first time.