On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, James A. Crippen wrote: > I have a Lisp Machine... Ahhh, Lisp Machines. I saw one only yesterday. The worlds most sophisticated environment... > that I can speak telnet to but would really rather do SUPDUP. > However I've never heard of a SUPDUP (see RFC > 736) implementation for Linux. Has anyone heard of such a beast? There was an implementation for BSD 4.1 which would likely work with only a little bit of updating. But why? [[ Background: The SUPer DUPer login protocol was very much like telnet, but included line editing. It has _long_ since been abandoned. ]] > I'm also curious to know if anyone has heard of an implementation of > ChaosNet for Linux. ChaosNet was a suite of protocols similar in > functionality to IP/TCP developed at MIT back in the 1970s. ChaosNet was > used quite a bit between PDP10s running ITS and Multics and Lisp Machines, > as well as various other systems they had floating around which were > capable of some sort of ethernet-like networking. Chaosnet was combined hardware and software system, using a slotted contention protocol over hardline coax. Yes, there was a Chaosnet software implementation layer that ran over Ethernet hardware, but much like DECnet, it used physical address and was not scalable. I once worked on a Chaosnet device driver and probably have some protocol source code on a 9 track tape somewhere, but it's really unlikely to be usable. > I'd love to be able to do SUPDUP over ChaosNet, particularly, but that's > probably asking too much. > Lambda Unlimited: Recursion 'R' Us> Errrmmm, uhmmm, you might want to check your calibration settings -- you are seem to be about two decades off. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
