RFC 148

Comments on RFC #123 ✨

okay bestie, this one is RFC 148 (NIC 6751) by A. Bhushan from MIT -- Project MAC, dated 7 May 1971 🦋 It's filed under category D.1, and it doesn't list anything it obsoletes or updates, so it's just vibing solo 💅

okay so the main drama is that RFC #123 says the byte size s has to be 32-bits for the initial connection, and that is giving major strain on some of the 36-bit machines 😭 For example, on the PDP-10 (DMCG-ITS) NCP there's currently no way to send or receive exactly 32-bits of data 🙈 Data goes out either in image mode (36-bit bytes) or in ASCII mode (8-bit characters with the 8th bit as zero) 🌸

so the idea is: perhaps the server should be allowed to send more than 32-bits (say 72-bits), where the leftover bits could just be NULL fillers 🧚 And the byte size s for the connection may be fixed at 8-bits 💖 that's honestly so iconic 👑

[ 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 ] 🫶