Subject: Re: DECserver 100
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/25/2000 13:33:07
At 04:04 PM 6/25/2000 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On June 25, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > does anybody know about LAT?  i'm currently projectless (with the 
> exception of
> > trying to get ColdFusion working under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, which 
> is more
> > of an admin project, not a development project) and wouldn't mind 
> taking a look
> > at this.  can anyone give me any pointers on where to look to learn 
> about LAT?
>
>   I believe there's some sort of DECnet support in Linux...that might be
>a good place to start.

DEC patented LAT so that an open-source implementation can't be implemented 
until
the patent expires.  DEC also never released with the LAT spec only when a 
licensing
agreement has been signed.
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