12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
12:45 p.m.
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:08, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I remember those days, thinking of 50 nodes as being pretty good-sized.
:-)
IBM's internal network was significantly larger than that by '82. 8-)
Of that I have no doubt! :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I know of ARCnet, went to a short seminar on that
once at a trade
show, and in fact even have a couple of ISA cards around here
someplace, though I don't forsee me ever using them.
ARCnet and most of the 'nets were in the price range of a hard disk
then. Also the whole idea of networking was new. For example in 1982
the two largest networks I knew of were DEC (internal) and
Dupont(internal) and they were around 50 nodes!