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Not to be confused with Network Description Language.

NDL (Network Definition Language) was a compiler on Burroughs large systems computers used to create a network definition file for a data communications controller (DCC) and object code for a data communications processor (DCP) that interfaced between a message control program (written in DCALGOL) such as (RJE), (MCSII) or (CANDE) and its line adaptors and terminal network.[1][2]

Burroughs Network Definition Language allows many parameters of the mainframe communications adapter, modems (where used), protocol and attached terminal to be defined. However it treats the low-level operation of the multi-drop protocol, calculation of CRCs etc. as primitives.

References

  1. ^ Burroughs B6700/B7700 System software handbook (form no 5000722)
  2. ^ Burroughs Network Definition Language (form no 7000078)
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