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- From: ulmo@netcom.com (Brad Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing,misc.int-property
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <c=fm+7.ulmo@netcom.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 02:30:52 GMT
- References: <l6nl2kINNjuk@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul21.120111.11737@news.acns.nwu.edu> <CKD.92Jul21115054@loiosh.eff.org>
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- " BV> If AT&T attacks Mark Williams Company, then your conclusions are
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- " Of course, if I remember right, MWC is claiming a patent on the idea of
- " a designated byte order for interchange between machines of differing
- " endianness.
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- Geez, I consider that a joke, but if it really matters ...
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- Does it predate this?
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- Network Working Group 4691
- RFC-5 Jeff Rulifson
- June 2, l969
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- DEL
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- [...]
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- All input from the Utah console first goes to the NLS NEP. It is
- processed, parsed, blocked, translated, etc. When NEP receives a
- character appropriate to its state it may finally initiate
- transfers to the 940. The bits transferred are in a form
- acceptable to the 940, and maybe in a standard form so that the
- NLSW need not differentiate between Utah and other NET users.
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- ADVANTAGES OF NST
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- After each node has implemented the library part of the NST, it
- need only write one program for each subsystem, namely the
- symbolic file it sends to each user that maps the NET hardware
- representation into its own special bit formats.
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- [...]
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