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RFC 5 - Decode Encode Language (DEL)

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: June 1969
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: RFC 5 Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 5
  • Title: Decode Encode Language (DEL)
  • Authors: Jeff Rulifson
  • Date: June 1969
  • Category: Unknown
:DEL, 02/06/69 1010:58   JFR   ;   .DSN=1; .LSP=0; ['=] AND NOT SP ; ['?];
dual transmission?

Abstract​

The Decode-Encode Language (DEL) is a machine independent language tailored to two specific computer network tasks:

  • accepting input codes from interactive consoles, giving immediate feedback, and packing the resulting information into message packets for network transmissin.
  • and accepting message packets from another computer, unpacking them, building trees of display information, and sending other information to the user at his interactive station.

This is a working document for the evolution of the DEL language. Comments should be made through Jeff Rulifson at SRI.

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