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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/15/2021 12:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/15/21 9:13 AM, Roy Omond wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Hmmm.. I'm surprised.  I thought TGV became Process. Guess I
> really got that wrong.

Cisco sold to Process a year later.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/cisco_offloads_multinet_dec_net_connectivity_software_1/

Arne