[Simh] Infoserver software

[Brian Wheeler]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:40 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> 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...

I got an email reply and he said he'd look through his docs and let me
know within a week.

Brian