3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
10:27 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Curt vendel wrote:
Ah! Sorry, I didn't get into Dec Vax stuff until
94' and didn't start
working with Ultrix till 95' I remember we got into the lab I think it
was a Dec Infoserver, their first webserver and it was running Ultrix as I
recall, I really liked the way Ultrix worked, much better then Solaris and
SunOS which I has also just gotten started using around 94' as well.
Actually, I think the infoserver was running OSF Unix??? Hmmmmm, brain
ain't what it used to be :-)
InfoServers were boot-load servers that ran a very
rudimentary
system called ESS, which in turn was based on DEC's VAXeln runtime
kernel for embedded systems. It was designed to efficiently offer
disk (cd-rom and harddisk) and tape devices to the network, and
used DEC protocols called LAD (LASTport/disk) and LASTport/tape
for access to those "shared devices".
--f