10 Jan
2018
10 Jan
'18
8:05 a.m.
On Jan 9, 2018, at 7:56 PM, Phil Budne via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
DC44 TYPESET-10 front end (PDP-11) for PTR (PA611R), PTP (PA611P), CAT?
photocomposition machine (LPC11)
That takes me back a while... 6 channel paper tape equipment, for communicating with
typesetting machinery of that era.
Which reminds me:
...(*) "A Network For 10s?" possibly based
on a VERY early spec for
DECnet. It may have used link-state routing. I don't think routing
in DECnet appeared before Phase III;
I don't know anything about ANF-10. But while routing appeared in DECnet with phase
3, that was not the first time DEC did routing. Earlier (late 1977, I think -- certainly
by summer 1978), Typeset-11 did link state routing. It had a primitive kind of cluster
that operated by passing work around as files, via a proprietary protocol over DMC-11
links, with link state routing. It was pretty transparent: terminals were connected to
any of the nodes, and could edit work and pass it around (to other people or to processing
components such as typesetting back ends) independent of the location of those other
resources.
paul