jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (06/17/90)
I've been reading the traffic on MacLayers with some interest. Maybe this was
addressed & I missed it -- if so please excuse. Most folks running MacLayers
seem to be doing so on a BSD host. uw already works on BSD, but as far as I
know *does not* work on a System V host. On the other hand, AT&T invented a
protocol called Layers and has implemented it on many of its systems. It's
what they use to multiplex many processes through a single connection for their
BLIT and other succeeding fancy terminals, e.g. 630, 730, etc. I have both a
Mac and an AT&T 3b1. The 3b1 does come with Layers. Supposedly the Layers
stuff *does work* with AT&T's 630 terminal. Methinks this is really where the
word "Layers" in MacLayers was originally supposed to have come from, but I
don't know if the current incarnation of MacLayers is really implementing the
AT&T Layers protocol in a compatible way.
Can I simply attach a Mac with MacLayers client side to my 3b1 and get it to
talk to the Layers host software that came with my machine? Has anybody tried
this?
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Jim Rosenberg
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