Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cak@purdue.ARPA From: cak@purdue.ARPA (Christopher A. Kent) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 bsd with DEC terminal server? Message-ID: <2772@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 08:58:07 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2772 Posted: Mon Nov 4 08:58:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:16:03 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 23 From: "Neville D. Newman"We would appreciate answers to the following questions. * Has anybody developed LAT-protocol software that would allow this connection to be made over the Ethernet? If so, can we get it? Over two years ago, I tried to get the LAT spec out of DEC in order to do a public-domain implementation for 4.2. I never succeeded. Seems the author was interested in trying to patent the idea, then they were going to try to develop some sort of standard from it, then who knows what. But the bottom line was that it wasn't going to leave DEC. In theory, Ultrix has/will have a server end, but I don't know if it has ever been released. Or what you do if you don't want to run Ultrix. Unfortunately, the protocol isn't as useful as it could be anyway, since it's limited to working on a single ethernet, but that's an entirely different discussion. They're out there, they're probably getting cheaper, and there doesn't seem to be any way to make them work with 4.2. Cheers, chris ----------