Network Working Group A. Bhushan
Request for Comments # 148 MIT -- Project MAC
NIC # 6751 7 May 1971
Categories: D.1
Comments on RFC #123
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The requirement that byte size 's' be 32-bits for
- the initial connection imposes some severe strains on some of
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- the 36-bit machines. For example, in our PDP-10 (DMCG-
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- ITS) NCP, we have at present no way of sending or receiving
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- exactly 32-bits of data. Data is transmitted either in
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- image mode (36-bit bytes) or in ASCII mode (8-bit characters
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- with the 8th bit as zero). Perhaps we should permit the
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- server to send more than 32-bits (say 72-bits) where the
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- remaining bits could be NULL fillers. The byte size
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[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
[ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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