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

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In article <i6dm7uFs470U1 at mid.individual.net>, Roy Omond <roy at omond.net> writes:
>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.
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>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.
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>TGV was acquired by Cisco in January 1996 for $115 million.

When I as supporting my Uncle Sam's military machine, the VAXen had the 
Wollongong TCP/IP stack.  We called it All-is-wrong and it as notorious 
for crashing the systems almost daily.  I remember attending one DECUS
where TGV promised a discount and one year free maintenance if Multinet
replaced an existing installation.  I installed it on one of the lab's
systems and after a week of no crashes, I installed it on the main VMS
cluster in lieu of All-is-wrong.  The powers that be were so impressed
that Multinet was purchased for all of the labroatory systems and All-
is-wrong was dropped like a hot potato in the toilet.

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