Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NeXT multi-media message file format
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.201114.13988@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8263@milton.u.washington.edu> <9304@milton.u.washington.edu> <9314@milton.u.washington.edu> <896@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 20:11:14 GMT

In article <896@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>The RFC describing Berkeley's Line Printer protocol wasn't issued
>until August 1990, but no one seemed to have any trouble
>implementing it and making it the de facto standard over the
>years...

You are confusing "succeeded, perhaps with great pain and anguish" with
"had no trouble". :-)  Note also that Berkeley made no attempt to keep
the stuff secret, it was just that their documentation (the sources!)
was pretty hard to read.
-- 
"...the i860 is a wonderful source     | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
of thesis topics."    --Preston Briggs |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry