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

13 Sep 2007

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

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From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf
Of Roy J. Tellason
Sent: 12 September 2007 20:46
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 8-bitters and multi-whatever

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:08, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
...
  Roy J. Tellason wrote:
    I know of ARCnet,  went to a short seminar on that
once at a trade 
 show, and in fact even have a couple of ISA cards around here 
 someplace, though I don't forsee me ever using them. 
 ARCnet and most of the 'nets were in the price range of a hard disk 
 then. Also the whole idea of networking was new.  For example in 
 1982 the two largest networks I knew of were DEC (internal) and
 Dupont(internal) and they were around 50 nodes! 
 I remember those days,  thinking of 50 nodes as being pretty good-sized. 
 :-) 
 IBM's internal network was significantly larger than that by '82.  8-) 
Of that I have no doubt!   :-)

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