[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV and VMS code comments

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
> Of Paul Sture via Info-vax
> Sent: 22-Nov-16 4:03 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV and VMS code comments
> 
> On 2016-11-22, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
> <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Incidentally in trying (and largely failing) to find useful
> > information on the DESNC, I came across this 2015 paper which
> some
> > readers may find interesting. Note that although Butler
> Lampson is now
> > a long term employee of MS Research (as are Dave Cutler, Tony
> Hoare
> > and others!!!), he's previously worked extensively at Xerox
> PARC and
> > at DEC's Systems Research Center:
> >
> > http://research.microsoft.com/en-
> us/um/people/blampson/Slides/Security
> > %20perspectives%20(SOSP%202015).pdf
> >
> > It's a shame no one elsewhere in MS is actually listening to
> these
> > good people.
> 
> Nice find, thanks for passing it on.
> 
> > Meanwhile, someone with a valid pointer to a DEC "Systems
> and Options"
> > or "Networks and Communications" catalogue from the
> relevant era may
> > be able to shed a little more light on the DESNC than I can.
> 
> No success with those documents but I found references to
> DESNC in the following documents:
> 
> ----
> <ftp://ftp.uni-
> mainz.de/pub/software/CERT/nist/nistgen/sp4rpt.txt>
> 
> "Prototyping SP4 - A Secure Data Network System Transport
> Protocol Interoperability Demonstration Project"
> 
> (skip forward to "6.1 Establishing the SP4 Laboratory" to get
to
> the interesting bits)
> 
> ----
> <http://decdoc.itsx.net/dec94mds/vaxctcg6.txt>
> 
> "Guidelines for VAXcluster System Configurations", September
> 1992
>

For easier reading, there is also a PDF version of this file in
the same directory:
http://decdoc.itsx.net/dec94mds/vaxctcg6.pdf

Btw, some likely already knew about this site, but it was new to
me (or at least I forgot about it) so ....

I tripped across some excellent docs for older devices in this
site as well:

http://decdoc.itsx.net/dec94mds/ (scroll down for txt/pdf file
flavors)

http://decdoc.itsx.net 
http://decdoc.itsx.net/uq/pdf/ (huge number of user guides -
including older LCG systems and peripherals)

Gordon Bell "Computer Engineering" (large file)
http://decdoc.itsx.net/bitsavers/pdf/dec/Bell-ComputerEngineering
.pdf

(site is highly recommended for those interested in some not
readily available older docs)

[snip]


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com