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40: 152:(packet-switching) network or host computer. It collects data from a group of terminals and places the data into X.25 packets (assembly). A PAD also does the reverse, it takes data packets from packet-switching network or host computer and returns them into a character stream that can be sent to the terminals (disassembly). A 201:
defines the DTE-C (asynchronous character mode) interface to a PAD, including the commands for making and clearing down connections, and manipulating the X.3 parameters. The commands were very crude, a bit like (but not at all compatible with) the
297:"X.29 : Procedures for the exchange of control information and user data between a Packet Assembly/Disassembly (PAD) facility and a packet mode DTE or another PAD" 240:
in the 1970s. Although not identical to Triple-X, Green Book is sufficiently similar to X.3 and X.29 that generally the two will interwork. Green Book also specifies
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defines the DTE-P (packet mode) interface to a PAD, i.e., how the PAD encapsulates characters and control information in X.25 packets.
332: 264: 90: 244:, a very similar protocol which ran over the Yellow Book Transport Service, which is another of the Coloured Book protocols. 72: 180:, and X.29. Sometimes, this is referred to as a Triple-X PAD, due to the three X-series recommendations which define it: 153: 267:(SERC) also used ITP on SERCnet and continued developing ITP after EPSS, although it eventually gave way to Triple-X. 191:, character echo, et al. for a connection to an X.25 host. The X.3 parameters are similar in function to present-day 145: 123: 255:(Interactive Terminal Protocol) was an early PAD protocol for use over X.25 developed in the 1970s for use with 256: 237: 61: 97: 317: 276: 229: 50: 260: 28: 8: 188: 206:. Many commercial PAD products provided completely different enhanced user interfaces. 203: 337: 326: 187:
specifies the parameters for terminal-handling functions such as line speed,
157: 296: 39: 236:, also defines two PAD protocols. Green Book was developed by (UK) 263:). ITP predated Triple-X, and is a completely different protocol. 259:
EPSS (Experimental Packet Switching System, the predecessor of
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