26 Jun
2022
26 Jun
'22
1:04 p.m.
On 26 Jun 2022, at 03:41, Anthony Martin
<ality(a)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?