Gee, thanks everyone for the ISO(DE) / X.25 / X.400 / X.500 mentions (+ASN.1)
I recall writing a small lpd/lpsched filter to forward print jobs across X.25 to a PAD thence terminal server via "reverse-Telnet" (and RS232C serial <=> Centronics parallel convertor?) to a printer. For delivery manifests for Castlemaine / Bond Brewing trucks -- I guess that's "essential infrastructure" for XXXX to keep the country lubricated? ;-) So many incompatible parameters, so little (comprehensible) debug info... Thanks again for bringing back some long-buried memories. Now I'm off to book myself into therapy... :-D -- Stuart. p.s., for extra credit, attribute this quote: "*If you know what you're doing, 3 layers is enough; if you don't, even 7 won't help.*" (*from memory, may not be exact; from the COS/CWS wars*) On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:51 Richard Spindler, <[email protected]> wrote: > And then Pathworks, remember doing a lot of DECNet to Pathworks... > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:46 PM Boyd Adamson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I remember DECnet phase V bringing a VAX to its knees just implementing >> the network stack, let alone an app. And required extensive configuration >> at every layer >> >> Not to mention committee produced protocol level fun like the Transport >> layer having 5 mutually incompatible Transport protocols >> >> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 12:26 pm, Tim Hogard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> > On Feb 27, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, at 11:24, Tim Hogard wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Memorex, MRX IV, 6250 BPI with a hand-written label "ISODE v2.0" ... >>> looks to be about 2400ft, so that's a whopping 193MB if it has 9 tracks on >>> it ... >>> >> >>> >> There are embarrassing things I would admit to in public. >>> >> >>> >> Having an 9 track tape with ISODE on it is not one of them. >>> > >>> > ... in my innocence, I have no idea why this is a good thing or bad >>> ... what is ISODE? >>> >>> Is is software to do the ISO layer stuff that isn't TCP/IP. The idea >>> was to develop a standard for >>> ISO layer 3 to 5 but it suffered from spec growth. It came out of the >>> ITU and it was very expensive >>> when if 1st came out. We are talking that it make Oracle look cheap. >>> It also would work for things >>> like IPX over X.25 over IPX and that sort of stuff was not discouraged. >>> >>> It includes things like X.400 and X.500. X.500 email systems make >>> sendmail.cf look simple. The >>> license for a single email server would have been around $50,000 with >>> $20,000 a year. >>> >>> You may recognize parts that ended up in LDAP and certificate names. >>> The X.400 naming stuff is where stuff like " C=US, ST=Washington, >>> L=Redmond, O=Microsoft >>> Corporation, OU=Microsoft IT, CN=Microsoft IT TLS CA 5"comes from. >>> >>> Line per line, it is some of the most evil code I've seen. >>> >>> >>> -tim >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> msosug mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >>> Delivered for: [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> msosug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >> Delivered for: [email protected] >> > > > -- > Richard Spindler > PO Box 768 > South Yarra > Victoria 3141 > +61 400 117 860 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] > http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug > Delivered for: [email protected] >
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