On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:03 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:27:18 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > Is there any documentation on the LAD/LAST protocols anywhere? If there > > was documentation available it might make an interesting project... > > If I'm not wrong, Digital never published any specification about LAD/LAST > protocols, but they patented them. You may find a somewhat complete > description of the whole thing in the patent application. The protocol is > described at large and with a quite high level approach, but indeed there > are some interesting details like the format of some messages exchanged by > server and clients. It recalls quite a lot the LAT protocol. >
Well, the documents may be floating around somewhere, but http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2004-04/0394.html I emailed the author and it hasn't bounced back, so maybe he still exists... > Look for patent application number EP0358293 with Google. There are many > sites from which patent copies can be downloaded for free as PDF files. > > If you encounter any trouble, I may upload somewhere the copy I've got. :) > This looks like the one: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=EP&NR=0358293A2&KC=A2&FT=D&date=19900314&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP > HTH, > G. > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
