Umm, yes assuming you meant the Confusian way, right?
Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Mark
Wickens Verzonden: dinsdag, juli 2011 21:30 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp:
Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness....
I think they call that 'interesting times' ;) On 12/07/11 21:27, H Vlems
wrote:
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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