Datakit

Datakit... TM 8-) I wish I knew what that really did on the fiber. I figure it was some kind of ATM or Frame Relay kind of protocol. They used to charge per ethernet drop at the labs for TCP/IP. Datakit was much less expensive internally so they used it more often. About 3-4 years ago they started the "Atlas Space" project of cubicle-ization and they stopped charging per port for the 100 BaseT in the newer area. This meant Datakit was dead. Main use with Vaxes was through a serial port to datakit mux unless they got the very expensive card for the Vaxes. IIRC -- It kind of worked like a Micom Data switch if you were on the Mux ports. You could connect from your terminal/pc to just about anywhere. I guess it kind of reminded me of X.25 connections or micom ports outside of AT&T/Lucent. --Bill --- Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org