And then Pathworks, remember doing a lot of DECNet to Pathworks... On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:46 PM Boyd Adamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember DECnet phase V bringing a VAX to its knees just implementing > the network stack, let alone an app. And required extensive configuration > at every layer > > Not to mention committee produced protocol level fun like the Transport > layer having 5 mutually incompatible Transport protocols > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 12:26 pm, Tim Hogard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On Feb 27, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, at 11:24, Tim Hogard wrote: >> >>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Memorex, MRX IV, 6250 BPI with a hand-written label "ISODE v2.0" ... >> looks to be about 2400ft, so that's a whopping 193MB if it has 9 tracks on >> it ... >> >> >> >> There are embarrassing things I would admit to in public. >> >> >> >> Having an 9 track tape with ISODE on it is not one of them. >> > >> > ... in my innocence, I have no idea why this is a good thing or bad ... >> what is ISODE? >> >> Is is software to do the ISO layer stuff that isn't TCP/IP. The idea was >> to develop a standard for >> ISO layer 3 to 5 but it suffered from spec growth. It came out of the >> ITU and it was very expensive >> when if 1st came out. We are talking that it make Oracle look cheap. It >> also would work for things >> like IPX over X.25 over IPX and that sort of stuff was not discouraged. >> >> It includes things like X.400 and X.500. X.500 email systems make >> sendmail.cf look simple. The >> license for a single email server would have been around $50,000 with >> $20,000 a year. >> >> You may recognize parts that ended up in LDAP and certificate names. >> The X.400 naming stuff is where stuff like " C=US, ST=Washington, >> L=Redmond, O=Microsoft >> Corporation, OU=Microsoft IT, CN=Microsoft IT TLS CA 5"comes from. >> >> Line per line, it is some of the most evil code I've seen. >> >> >> -tim >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> msosug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >> Delivered for: [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] > http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug > Delivered for: [email protected] > -- Richard Spindler PO Box 768 South Yarra Victoria 3141 +61 400 117 860 [email protected]
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