17 Jul
2025
17 Jul
'25
10:46 p.m.
On Jul 17, 2025, at 4:30 PM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
On 7/17/25 16:17, Trevor Warwick wrote:
Hey, I have similar motivation -- I didn't write any Phase V code but I wrote some of
the specs and helped create bits of others. (For example, I bent the mind of the original
author of the DTS spec by telling him there is such a thing as "leap seconds".)
Also, if you want to know why PyDECnet does some of the stranger things it does (like
Phase II support, and partial Phase I support for that matter) my answer echoes George
Mallory: "because it is there".
paul
For me, running Phase V is actually the whole
point. I worked on it at DEC, so it's fun to connect today using some code I wrote 30+
years ago.
And you admit to this? ;)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
-Dave