> On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Dave Mitton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/7/2016 01:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:26:34 +0000
>> From: <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Document treasure trove
>>
>>
>> While looking for DECnet documents, I noticed that there's a very large
>> collection at http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/antonio/dec/ .
>> Probably not news to many, but in case some had not seen it...
>>
>> Among other things, there are two CD collections MDS-1997-10 and
>> MDS-2000-01. The former contains a rather obscure document, the DECnet
>> Phase IV Token Ring datalink spec. That also includes the Phase IV routing
>> layer tweaks necessary to support token ring -- or other datalinks if you
>> don't want to use the AA-00-04-00 prefix.
>>
>> paul
>
> As the primary author of that document, I still have a hard copy (available),
> and can answer any questions (if the neurons remember) As well as a variety
> of other DECnet specs and documents. Most of them were on the an HP site
> for awhile. I don't know what survived the corporate split.
Thanks Dave. The parts I studied seem quite clear (as expected). I was
thinking I might add IVprime support to DECnet/Python. Maybe that's a bit
silly, maybe not. It clearly is valid to do so even if your interface isn't
Token Ring, though I suspect it hasn't been done before.
paul
