14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
10:12 a.m.
On 9/14/2016 11:04 AM, william degnan
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:56 AM, js at
cimmeri.com<js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
Cool. I was a big fan of running
Netware over Token Ring. But remember
eventually
just getting crushed by cheap and easier
to install ethernet. One of my main
clients at
the time was on 4mb Token, and we were
asked for a proposal to speed it up.
16mb Token Ring had just come out, and
the per-card cost was very high. Another
vendor proposed with 10mbit ethernet and
stole the client... despite them having to
ditch the expensive, genuine IBM 4mb
Token setup (whose wiring could have still
been used for 16mb) and rewire the
place. Still bugs me to this day, which is
probably why I'm writing about it now. :-)
- J.
I too started in 1988, doing the same kind of work (mid-Atlantic region,
USA), same number and types of places. Just to compare:
* Banyan VINES (never saw)
* Corvus (saw once)
* ARCnet (saw many times)
* LittleBigLAN (never heard of or saw)
* The $25 Network (never heard of or saw)
* NFS (there were SUNs at the-then NBS (Bureau of Standards)
(but I rarely encountered UNIX anywhere)
* 3Com 3+Share (saw only one place -- at NASA Goddard)
* Sage MainLAN (never heard of)
* Personl Netware (never saw)
* Netware Lite (never saw)
* DEC Pathworks (saw only two places -- NASA G and NBS)
Most frequently worked with:
* Netware 3.x& 4.x
* Lantastic
* Windows / Microsoft
- J.
Also a mid-Atlantic alumni...
I started the networking portion of my career in 1987, working at IBM.
Part of my job was to set up Token Ring Network for sales demos (college
intern). Also Hypercard related networking was big in the late 80's. Dd
a lot of TCP/IP networking starting in 1992 or so.
Bill