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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/15/21 9:13 AM, Roy Omond wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hmmm.. I'm surprised.  I thought TGV became Process. Guess I
really got that wrong.

bill