[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/25/21 10:02 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>> That would be LAT, not DECnet, using a DECserver.  They did not
>> use DECnet.  The MOP protocol is used to remotely manage DECservers.
> 
> And the MOP protocol is patented... but the patent does not provide sufficient
> information to implement a client.  Some people making third party terminal
> servers have licensed the patent but it is far from open when compared to
> decnet.

I can only assume it was clean room duplicated as it is available
on Linux as well.

> 
> Whereas in the IP world, everything is IP, in the DEC world you may have
> Decnet, Vaxcluster, and MOP packets all running on the same cable, with
> totally different formats.  Everything from the data link layer on up is
> different, but a lot of people don't seem to recognize that and go poking
> at Decnet when they have clustering issues, etc.
> --scott
> 

While the names seem to wander it is networking, it cam from DEC, it is
not TCP/IP so it seems to me it is all just various parts of DECnet.  :-)

bill