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| Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 12:35 AM EDT |
There is a world of difference between X.25/AX.25 and a broadcast protocol like
Ethernet.
As I recall, I saw the first ethernet connection a little over 30 years ago when
I worked at DEC in Reading.
This strange thick blow co-ax cable was laid in the comupter room. The a jig was
attached to it and a hole carefully drilled through the outer core and into the
middle. Then this large bracket was attached.
One more cable to connect it up to the Uni-bus interface and bingo, the
VAX-11/780 (decnet node Lyme) was connected to the network.
Not long afterwards 10-Base-2 cabling arrived and suddenly connections were a
whole lot easier.
If you have a link showing the historical link between the Hawaiian network and
how ethernet was born, please post it. Grumpy old men like myself would be very
interested.
The advent of Ethernet did IMHO make the whole concept of VMS Clustering
possible. A decent multicast network was (IMHO) essential to making it work
outside of the CI Connections.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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