I still have a slew on Lantronix terminal servers :) -mel via cell
> On Sep 1, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > > >> On 9/1/21 11:42 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: >> For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at >> the dawn of the Internet, was the primary editor of this landmark document. >> >> Those were the days we thought ARPAnet would never be allowed to go >> commercial. Thanks to Jon’s tireless campaigning (among others), not to >> mention meticulous documentation, it did. >> >> He was taken from us too soon. >> >> https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/ >> > RFC 791 and 793 are remarkably easy to read and follow what's going on. And > that's not just hindsight speaking. We implemented both a few years later > purely from the RFC's with no connection to anybody else and when we actually > had kit that was connected to the Internet it just worked. One of the most > remarkable things in my life was that I wrote debugger for the OS I wrote for > the Lantronix terminal servers which I ended up remotely debugging in New > Zealand. That was just mind blowing. Of course you'd call that a backdoor > these days but they were very happy that I could figure out what was going on. > > I never had the pleasure of meeting Jon, though I saw him at IETF meetings. > > Mike >
