10 Feb
2002
10 Feb
'02
1:40 a.m.
At 07:11 PM 9/02/2002 -0600, Owen Robertson wrote:
But in reality, many hobbyists have designed their own
network protocols out of necessity. They wanted to network certain
computers, but no network protocols had been implemented for them, so they
wrote their own protocol, or ported someone else's.
I know many years ago La Trobe University implemented networking between
the DECsystem-10 and one of the VAXes via a home written suite of programs
that used Kermit as the transport. I think this developed into the Kermit
channel that's available in PMDF.
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