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From: shane@VM.UTDALLAS.EDU (Shane Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: LAT vs telnet
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Date: 7 May 91 16:26:03 GMT
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Annex terminal servers can speak with Encore Multimax machines with some
sort of login protocol which presumably reduces host load. This is the
protocol used by the Annex "call" command. Supposedly, the Annex runs the
tty drivers for the Multimax, acting as a FEP and passing data to the host
only when whatever quantum of data the host desires is entirely available (e.g.
a line-mode operation such as a shell command isn't passed until newline).
The protocol is proprietary, like LAT, but is done via TCP/IP, unlike LAT.

--Shane Davis
  Network Systems Software
  Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Academic Computer Center
  (214) 690-2637        shane@utdallas.edu        SHANE@UTDALLAS.BITNET