[Info-vax] [Change topic] Origins of Multinet

[Roy Omond]

On 14/01/2021 23:42, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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> Woolongong was a VMS company but I don't think Multinet ever
> had any connection.  Hunter can probably tell us.  If it came
> from anywhere prior to VMS I would have thought RSX.

How quickly we all seem to forget.  Multinet was a product from TGV
("Two Guys and a Vax" - I can't quite recall their names any more,
Ken Adelman and Dave Kashtan ?), founded in January 1988 in Santa Cruz.
It was rumoured that they would never travel on the same plane together
so that both would not be lost in the case of a crash.

As the name suggests, the original Multinet was developed for VMS
(on Vax), but there was a later version released for Windows, IIRC.

TGV was acquired by Cisco in January 1996 for $115 million.