> A couple of announcements were made recently about a LAT daemon for
> Linux. See freshmeat or http://dreamtime.org/decnet for more
> information. There should be some good information there about decoding
> LAT.
Well,
http://dreamtime.org/decnet
gets an error, but
http://linux.dreamtime.org/decnet/
works, although all it says about LAT right now is
LAT: Shhh! Don't tell!
although "Don't tell" might be appropriate given that at least part of
LAT is patented, as per
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/DECnet/PhaseIV/
which says:
At the same time that DECnet Phase IV was released, Digital
introduced a new LAN based protocol for terminal access called
LAT (Local Area Terminal). This protocol was revolutionary and
Digital was awarded a patent for it. LAT remains to this day a
proprietary protocol for which specifications are not available
without license.
(If this is a software patent, it might not be an issue outside the US,
but....)
The Freshmeat entry is at
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/03/22/953715920.html
and just gives the
http://linux.dreamtime.org/decnet/
page as its home page.
