early networking (was Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...))

On 14 September 2016 at 17:56, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote: I honestly don't know what cabling SAGE MainLAN used. It may have been related. D9 connectors, about 4Mb/s speed? Odd... They were sold in the UK as being American imports... I put in a load of Xenix and later some SCO Unix boxes running multiuser accounts, often replacing CCP/M and CDOS systems -- but they were never networked. I never saw CP/M networked in my life. Weird. Quite a big product in the UK in the '80s. SAGE -- British accountancy s/w company. US tax law is different; Brits can't use US financial or accounts s/w. Gave an opening for UK players to get big. Typo for "Personal" of course. Wasn't big here. Ditto. One of 'em was bundled with Novell DOS 6 or 7. I forget which. That gave it a boost but it was a PITA to configure. Already, by then, people were mainly shipping NDIS drivers for WfWg which _did_ work but in a painful way and wasted a ton of RAM. It wasn't big but a lot of VAX users ran it. It bundled a ton of useful stuff from email to X.11 servers, but it was as slow as hell, burned RAM and was a pig to configure. Never played nice with WfWg. 2 and 3 here. 4 was the beginning of the end. It foisted mandatory NDS on a million single-served microbusinesses who had no need for it, and the needless complexity and pain killed the product. Most egregious case of corporate suicide I ever saw. I forgot that. I think I saw that very occasionally. Well, yes. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) ? +420 702 829 053 (?R)