On 9/14/2016 11:04 AM, william degnan wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:56 AM, j...@cimmeri.com<j...@cimmeri.com> wrote:I too started in 1988, doing the same kind of work (mid-Atlantic region, USA), same number and types of places. Just to compare: * Banyan VINES (never saw) * Corvus (saw once) * ARCnet (saw many times) * LittleBigLAN (never heard of or saw) * The $25 Network (never heard of or saw) * NFS (there were SUNs at the-then NBS (Bureau of Standards) (but I rarely encountered UNIX anywhere) * 3Com 3+Share (saw only one place -- at NASA Goddard) * Sage MainLAN (never heard of) * Personl Netware (never saw) * Netware Lite (never saw) * DEC Pathworks (saw only two places -- NASA G and NBS) Most frequently worked with: * Netware 3.x& 4.x * Lantastic * Windows / Microsoft - J.Also a mid-Atlantic alumni... I started the networking portion of my career in 1987, working at IBM. Part of my job was to set up Token Ring Network for sales demos (college intern). Also Hypercard related networking was big in the late 80's. Dd a lot of TCP/IP networking starting in 1992 or so. Bill
Cool. I was a big fan of running Netware over Token Ring. But remember eventually just getting crushed by cheap and easier to install ethernet. One of my main clients at the time was on 4mb Token, and we were asked for a proposal to speed it up. 16mb Token Ring had just come out, and the per-card cost was very high. Another vendor proposed with 10mbit ethernet and stole the client... despite them having to ditch the expensive, genuine IBM 4mb Token setup (whose wiring could have still been used for 16mb) and rewire the place. Still bugs me to this day, which is
probably why I'm writing about it now. :-) - J.
