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silverhairb

silverhairb

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What is SuperLAT software? Googled it but just came up with a lot of Console output listings.

[the other] Bill
 
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I would guess it's what allows for connections to a C.I. bus, which is DECNET. Local Area Transport---it allows a VAX tabletop/dummy terminal to be connected to a DEC server/VAX server over a C.I. bus, and it is layer 4. It does not have layer 2 capabilities, so it has to be bridged. You remember Digital, right? MOP (another thing that SuperLAT probably does). PDP-II? That's what the original Space Wars (later called Asteroids) was programmed on. Those date to 1971 or so. Microvax II---1976. Fixed one about 6 months ago, power supply said 1976. Remember the hard drive I showed you, Billy, and the 2KB memory line card, all ICU's?
Wait---LAT may be ethernet...I know it's a Digital proprietary protocol...

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That's interesting, but what is SuperLAT in the following context:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 3600 Software (C3640-JS-M), Version 12.3(15), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Technical Support: Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 24-May-05 16:28 by ssearch
Image text-base: 0x60008B00, data-base: 0x61EF8000

cisco 3640 (R4700) processor (revision 0x00) with 126976K/4096K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 24416649
R4700 CPU at 100MHz, Implementation 33, Rev 1.0
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.



[the other] Bill
 
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Thanks. So its nothing I have to worry about.

[the other] Bill
 
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Looks like a protocol that lets Windows systems share peripherals. Seems deprecated judging by the amount of Google results and the age of the Merdian info page but I could be wrong. I went ahead and posted in another forum so hopefully will be able to find some info for ya Bill.

By the way, how was the fishing trip?

B Haines
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No---nothing you have to worry about. PC's use tcp/ip, DEC machines once upon a time used DECNET, with LAT as the protocol. Billy, I showed you the hubs for a CI bus---those big blue cables that are 112 miles long! The hub stations had one xmit and one rcv for each bus. people mostly clustered VMS servers together and used LAT to connect dummies to the server (mainframe).

Burt
 
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Gotcha! Thanks for the history lesson.. LoL

B Haines
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