8-bitters and multi-whatever - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Sep 2007

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Subject: RE: 8-bitters and multi-whatever
   From: "Rod Smallwood" <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk>
   Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:06:42 +0100
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at
classiccmp.org>

I worked at DEC in '82 at the UK HQ (Decpark) 
I'm sure we had more than 50 nodes in the UK alone. 
The SET HOST list went on forever.

Rod Smallwood 
I used to have the netmap for DECnet/DEC for around '82 and it was by 
all accounts there at DEC the largest network on the planet but the total 
node count wasn't that high.  The second largest was a DEC custormer
Dupont at around 50 nodes. A large portion were phase III nodes. Huge 
contrast to 1988ish when people started subnetting DECnet as the 
phase IV address scheme had run out of space.

Allison