14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
6:30 p.m.
Banyan Vines - did LOTS of Banyan stuff from the military. Thousands of end
users. Great stuff, but Banyan had no more product marketing skills than IBM
did with OS/2. The Banyan NOS stuff ran on top of a SysV Release III Unix if I
remember correctly. Its been a while.
ARCnet - saw some of this, not a lot though
ENS StreetTalk - Again from Banyan, IMHO, the first real practical directory
service. Even as Banyan Vines (proper) servers were dwindling, we ran
StreetTalk on top of Solaris boxes.
OS/2 stuff - did more than my fair share of OS/2 stuff. For file shares
primarily SMB, but a lot over NFS also.
NFS - really surprised from the OP's comments. NFS file shares have been the
"bread-N-butter" of files shares for (me) for over 2 decades
GOSIP - Anyone remember this? I spent 6 months, 8 hours a day learning
intricate details about GOSIP in the mid 1990's. FWIW, this is/was the only
networking protocol that actually matches up with the OSI 7 layer model. No,
TCP/IP doesn't come anywhere close. Read more here if you are really interested:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Open_Systems_Interconnection_Profile>
IBM System 34 & 36 mini's - got my start here.
I guess we ultimately all have unique experiences.
Unix and (Cisco) core routing and switching has kept a roof over my head since
the mid 1990's.
I have a number of unique skills that (so far) have kept me employed thru all
the bad times in the economy, and to provide the leverage to keep employers from
forcing m$ junk on me.
Jerry
m$ free since '93
On 09/14/16 10:56 AM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
On 9/14/2016 8:50 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 03:08, Chuck Guzis<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>> There were networking packages for the PC early on. Remember Banyan? They
>> date from 1985. Corvus? Even Datapoint had an ARCnet facility for PCs in
>> 1984. Quite a few vendors had 802.3 capability. Networking, however
>> disorganized, was a very hot thing by 1987.
>
> This is quite interesting in terms of an Europe/NorAm divide.
>
> I entered the business in 1988. After 25y in support, working on
> thousands of systems in half a dozen countries, from 2-man outfits to
> multi-billion-dollar multinationals, no, I never ever saw any systems
> whatsoever running:
> * Banyan VINES
> * Corvus
> * ARCnet
> * LittleBigLAN
> * The $25 Network
>
> (Obviously, I've heard of them.)
>
> To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
>
> However, I routinely worked with:
> * 3Com 3+Share
> * Sage MainLAN
> * Personal Netware
> * Netware Lite
> * DEC Pathworks
>
> Most of these never seem to get mentioned in Stateside comms.
>
> Odd.
>