DECnet TRN Datalink spec, etc. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Apr 2016

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  On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Dave Mitton <dave at
mitton.com> wrote:

 On 4/7/2016 01:00 PM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
  Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:26:34 +0000
 From: <Paul_Koning at Dell.com>
 To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
 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