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From: MRC@PANDA.PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Where to find... supdup and tn3270 specs
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Date: 21 Jan 88 20:14:07 GMT
References: <19880121143457.7.DCP@SWAN.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
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Page 3 of RFC 734, "INITIALIZATION", in the very first paragraph describes
completely how to pack, unpack, and interpret the 36-bit quantities
in terms of 8-bit bytes.  The SUPDUP protocol itself uses 8-bit bytes in
transmission over the network.

I doubt the critics of the SUPDUP RFC have ever bothered to read it; it's
so much easier to criticize based on hearsay and the dread sequence
"PDP-10".
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