On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:56:55AM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote: nope. pure DECnet. the pair of 6000 boxes were interconnected with CI and had a big HSC sitting in between them. gazoodles of storage, don't remember how much though (remember, i'm a solaris admin by trade, so i only get to play with toys like that at home, never at work) all the CAD stations in the building were originally VAXstation 4000 desktops that satellite booted off of ethernet and got everything from the cluster with the exception of page and swap which was done on two local drives. these machines were eventually upgraded to DEC 3000 class machines (300LX and 700 for the most part, that's where i got mine from) but with the same setup, page and swap local, satellite boot from the 6000/HSC setup. pretty neat if you ask me. that's why MultiNet and, what was that other one that no-one ever uses anymore? anyway, that's why they had such good business. DEC didn't care for TCP/IP since it wasn't DECnet, so they let it fall to the third party. Multinet is an awesome package btw. -brian

The One and only time I filed a BugCheck report with Dec it was 1988 and the ?SE?'s were all over us (by phone) with pleasantries, and it was patched soon after. It was as if they never got calls, and one Bug was enough to make their week. Not exactly true I'm sure, but that was the way it played out. John A.