[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2021-07-25, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> 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.
>
>Are you thinking of LAT and not MOP ? The MOP specification is freely
>available, but LAT had (has?) patents against it.

I am in fact, yes.
--scott

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