13 Jul
2011
13 Jul
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midnight
You don't have to find old tapes for getting the Pathworks for OpenVMS (Netware) as it
is called. On the VAX SPL's from 1995 to September 1998 you'll find the kit.
If you don't have the necessary SPL's, I can extract the kit from my SPL.
The licenses are more complicated to find as Pathworks licenses has never been available
for hobbyists.
IIRC the Pathworks Netware implementation was at Netware V3.12. Compaq did put an end to
that story and the development didn't reach the Netware V4.* level.
Kari
On 12.7.2011 22:40, Jason Stevens wrote:
I guess I got in at the end of the Netware years (Yeah I know
governments still use) and I did live through the entire Ethernet,
EthernetII, 802.2, 802.3 fiasco's (lol so much for standard....) All the
stuff we had midrange did speak IPX/SPX, from the NeXT to the RS/6000's
and PC's.... Oddly enough our VAX's actually had some netware thing. I
wish I'd managed to make copies of the tapes, but we did have Netware
for VAX/VMS.
For our mainframe access we used Novell's SAA gateway which... was
terrible, when Microsoft shipped SNA server 2.1 (was there a 1.0?!) we
RAN to that... And used it over IPX/SXP with people even using dialup
shiva's!
It wasn't until 95 with Microsoft including TCP/IP into the consumer OS
did it really start to matter.
Well from my POV anyways.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:27 PM, H Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl
<mailto:hvlems at zonnet.nl>> wrote:
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Remember what I wrote: this happened nearly two decades ago.____
IP is the protocol that survived and most people aren t even aware
what happened on local area networks before, say,1998.____
I worked for Fuji, photosensitive films, paper and offset printing
products.____
Most of the IT equipment was made by DEC: PDP-11 s (/44, /84, /93,
/24, /73 and /23), VAXes, an IBM mainframe (4081) and PC s.____
And lots of other gear, most of it in the research lab. A Motorola
box that ran Motorola Unix, and an RS/6000 under AIX 2.4 (?).____
The lingua franca was DECnet and LAT. No IP, though some PC s used
Novell and SNA over tokenring to make terminal emulation to the
mainframe possible.____
No IP. Sounds weird in today s world but DECnet eventually
connected everything. We got a **very** early Cisco router that did
level 1____
DECnet routing between the corporate ethernet and the finance dept
token ring. Another (DEC) box that routed DECnet over Datanet/1
(that s X25 in Europe IIRC). The mainframe used an SNA/DECnet
gateway (the big channel attached box).____
The RS/6000 and the Motorola systems also ran DECnet, endnode only.____
To make this a little interesting we ran the first FDDI network in
the Netherlands.____
Trouble shooting wasn t always easy, especially if the SNA/DECnet
gateway was involved!____
Hans____
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[mailto:owner- <mailto:owner->__hecnet at Update.UU.SE
<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE>__] *Namens *Jason Stevens
*Verzonden:* dinsdag, juli 2011 21:10
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*Onderwerp:* Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness....____
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AIX and decnet? now that'd be ... non conformist & fun! ____
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