<Not just humor, Allison. Substantial accomodation for DEC network hardwar
<had to be made back then ('86..'87) because DEC had features which would
<foul other hardware up if accomodation wasn't made. In order to keep from
Sounds like the features were those needed to do WAN and you wanted
something lighter. Generally at that time I was viewing most LANs as
broken or nearly so. The only protocals I remember that worked were
DECnet, TCP/IP and BANYAN vines for routable and Netware for local
PC stuff.
<bringing down the LAN, all software/configuration changes had to be made i
<advance of connecting the first DEC hardware. It didn't always bring down
<the LAN, but if that was your only worry, it certainly would.
my experience was non DEC hardware didn't work or was questionable. Though
the common Qbus NI (DEQNA) was known to be a poor performer in more ways
than one. Side effect of an old design even by late '87 standards.
Allison
Received on Sun Nov 14 1999 - 22:20:03 GMT