[Info-vax] [Change topic] Origins of Multinet
Jan-Erik Söderholm
jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Fri Jan 15 09:25:40 EST 2021
Den 2021-01-15 kl. 15:13, skrev Roy Omond:
> On 14/01/2021 23:42, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> [...big snip...]
>>>
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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.
>
Just for fun...
https://mail.employees.org/univercd/Nov-1996/data/doc/cintrnet/prod_cat/pcmn_vms.htm
"Cisco MultiNet for OpenVMS"
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