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Subject: Re: Greg Chesson's Protocol Engine technology sold by SGI
Message-ID: <765@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 12:05:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 12:05:40 1987
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Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Summary: I though Chessons protocol engine was PD stuff

In article <21255@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> Greg Chesson (designer of the UUCP "g" protocol and Version 7 UNIX's
> multiplexed files; now working for Silicon Graphics in Mountain
> View, CA) gave a paper at the Phoenix Summer USENIX Conference last

	I remember seeing an article in one of the Unix rags in which
	Chesson stated that the protocol engine work was to be
	"public domain".  Did the PD component go down the tubes
	once SGI noticed that it had a potential winner on their
	hands?

> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone at SGI (preferably Mr. Chesson himself)
> would comment on both the state of the project, and the reasons for
> 
> 	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

	While we're on the subject, anyone know what has happened to
	Cheritons VMTP project?

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook