[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[gah4]

On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 12:28:46 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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> > But yes, both MS-DOS and MacOS had little support for Ethernet. 
> > There was NCSA Telnet, which connected directly to the Ethernet card, 
> > with no OS support. (That was free, government funded. There were 
> > some non-free versions around.) 
 
> > After not so long, MacOS had some support, and we ran a different 
> > NCSA Telnet. But also about then, Netscape 2.0, which was small 
> > enough to run on smaller Macintosh systems.

> I would assume a lot of the people here ran PathWorks on DOS PC's. 

I do remember that one.  And like NCSA Telnet, had no OS support.

But as noted previously, unless I forgot, you had to pay for that one.
Otherwise, yes, it allowed for DECnet connections.

I do remember having an account on an across the country MicroVAX
reachable by DECnet but not TCP/IP.   I had to use the numeric address,
as the PC didn't know it by name.