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

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On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 12:49:26 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/15/21 9:13 AM, Roy Omond wrote: 
> > On 14/01/2021 23:42, Bill Gunshannon wrote: 
> >> [...big snip...] 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 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

and if you would have thought multinet outperforms tcpware on alphaservers running on 7.1-2 you would have been wrong
because I proved tcpware outperformed multinet in in house testing. I did read and write performance testing along with file transfer rate between decnet over IP nodes
and web request processing on purveyor using DCL and Snergy DBL scripting  and it was not close. Process attributed that to possibly because tcpware was developed for the vms kernel.
I only tested those applications because the performance of the decnet over IP plus our web services were the 2 critical areas we needed peak performance on.