Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Don Gillies
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 22:16

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There are two places I suggest you look:

Ethernet standard, IEEE, 1981/82.

MIT Remote Virtual Disk Protocol design documentation, circa 1982-83.
I know the group had to solve the byte ordering protocol problem
because they had VAX disk packs talking to other VAXes and to
68000-class clones.  I have reprints of some of the RVD papers, if you
are interested.  They were internal documents to MIT CSR/CSC group,
headed by Jerry Saltzer and David Clark.

Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
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Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
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