[Info-vax] Unexpected DECnet Phase IV functionality with possible captive account implications

[David Jones]

On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 3:38:42 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Well, I can now say that the FAL protocol is one of the most ugly 
> designs I have seen. It's the type of protocol that only an assembly 
> language programmer could think was elegant. :-) 

It was designed when the link layer was DDCMP and every bit counted.