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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECNET protocols specs
Message-ID: <1053@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 88 20:39:32 GMT
References: <3708@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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From article <3708@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, by mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth):
> In article <2530@crash.cts.com> jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) writes:

>>Note that, unlike MSCP and etc., DEC doesn't mind if you implement
>>these protocols on other systems.

> On which side of the fence does LAT fall?  Do they mind and are there
> protocol manuals available for LAT?

Yes, they mind, and no, there aren't.  A few companies have reverse engineered
the LAT protocols, but I'm pretty sure that if DEC thought that any of
their employees had ever had access to the LAT specs (i.e., former DEC
employees) those companies would be looking at the wrong end of a lawsuit.
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