[Simh] Infoserver software

[Brian Wheeler]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:03 +0200, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:27:18 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> 
> > Is there any documentation on the LAD/LAST protocols anywhere?  If there
> > was documentation available it might make an interesting project...
> 
> If I'm not wrong, Digital never published any specification about LAD/LAST
> protocols, but they patented them. You may find a somewhat complete
> description of the whole thing in the patent application. The protocol is
> described at large and with a quite high level approach, but indeed there
> are some interesting details like the format of some messages exchanged by
> server and clients. It recalls quite a lot the LAT protocol.
> 

Well, the documents may be floating around somewhere, but
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2004-04/0394.html

I emailed the author and it hasn't bounced back, so maybe he still
exists...

> Look for patent application number EP0358293 with Google. There are many
> sites from which patent copies can be downloaded for free as PDF files.
> 
> If you encounter any trouble, I may upload somewhere the copy I've got. :)
> 

This looks like the one:
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=EP&NR=0358293A2&KC=A2&FT=D&date=19900314&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP



> HTH,
> G.
> 
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