List of Chaos application protocols
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A brief overview of Chaosnet application protocols. The current list is mostly based on what's found on ITS.
- 11DUMP — accept a crash dump from a PDP-11.
- 11LOAD — remote boot for MINITS.
- ARPA — forward connection to TCP/IP network.
- BABEL — send a fixed string of printable ASCII characters.
- BYE — send a good-bye quip.
- ECHO — echo data back; mostly for testing.
- DOOR — open door and call for elevator.
- FINGER — remote file system access; mainly for Lisp machines.
- NAME — list logged in users.
- LIMERICK — send a Limerick.
- LOAD — report host load.
- MAIL — network email.
- MINI — remote boot for Lisp machines.
- MINI36 — remote boot for KS10s.
- MLDEV — remote file system access; mainly for ITS.
- NAME — list logged in users.
- RMTDEV — remote file system; mainly for ITS to access TOPS-20 files.
- RTAPE — remote tape access.
- SEND — send message to a user.
- SUPDUP — remote login.
- TELNET — remote login.
- TIME — network time service.
- UPTIME — report uptime.
- YOW — send quote from Zippy the Pinhead.
