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From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:04:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14E73B91-1A99-4A14-9EE2-6331A4804C27@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yre5RfvTGz1ZLBG8@alice>


> On 26 Jun 2022, at 03:41, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
> 
> Really nice outline. I felt some déjà vu when opening the document: I
> remember reading your notes in April of 2020.

Thank you. Yes, I have not updated these notes since then.

> Would you happen to know where I can find copies of these three
> papers?
> 
> A. G. Fraser, "Datakit - A Modular Network for Synchronous and
> Asynchronous Traffic", Proc. ICC 79, June 1979, Boston, Ma.,
> pp.20.1.1-20.1.3
> 
> G. L. Chesson, "Datakit Software Architecture", Proc. ICC 79, June
> 1979, Boston Ma., pp.20.2.1-20.2.5
> 
> G. L. Chesson and A. G. Fraser, "Datakit Network Architecture," Proc.
> Compcon 80, February 1980, San Fransisco CA., pp.59-61

Two of these three were in Sandy Fraser’s archives:

https://www.jslite.net/notes/dk1.pdf

https://www.jslite.net/notes/dk2.pdf

The middle one is I fear lost - unless a paper copy of the proceedings is still lurking in some university library. I think it will be mostly about the “CMC” switch control software, which is somewhat described in the Luderer paper as well. As far as I can tell, there is no surviving Unix code that was designed for the CMC version of Datakit (unless someone is sitting on a V7 tape with the Datakit drivers still included).

> To connect to one of the Plan 9 cpu servers at Bell Labs, you would
> dial "nj/astro/helix!9fs”.

Out of interest, would you know if the switch-host interface for Datakit in the days of Plan9 worked more or less the same as in 8th Edition? Or had it much evolved by then?








  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-26 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-25 23:01 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 23:09 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-06-25 23:57   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-26  1:17     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-07-02  2:51       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-07-02  2:57         ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-28 10:38     ` Derek Fawcus
2022-06-28 12:36       ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 12:45         ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 13:33           ` Dan Cross
2022-06-28 21:19             ` Lawrence Stewart
2022-06-28 21:34               ` Richard Salz
2022-06-29  6:07                 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-06-28 16:11           ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 18:28           ` John Floren
2022-06-28 12:47         ` Rich Morin
2022-06-28 13:13           ` Marc Donner
2022-06-28 14:41             ` Clem Cole
2022-06-28 15:54               ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 17:05             ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-28 17:43               ` John Labovitz
2022-06-28 22:45               ` [TUHS] HTTP (was Re: Re: Research Datakit notes) Derek Fawcus
2022-06-26  1:41 ` [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes Anthony Martin
2022-06-26  9:52   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-26 11:04   ` Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2022-06-29 20:21   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-26  2:19 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-26  9:46 ` steve jenkin
2022-06-26 20:35   ` Erik Fair
2022-06-26 21:53     ` Steve Jenkin
2022-06-26 10:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-06-26 13:07 ` John Cowan
2022-06-26 13:35   ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-26 13:58     ` John Cowan
2022-06-27  0:43 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27  3:00 ` Erik Fair
2022-06-27 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27 22:40 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-28 15:50 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-28 21:32 ` Lawrence Stewart

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