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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2023 3:46 PM, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 12:28:46 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> 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.

MS did not provide anything. Drivers from the NIC vendor. The rest from
DEC.

> But as noted previously, unless I forgot, you had to pay for that one.

Yes. If I remember correct then one bought a N user license for the
server on VMS and then one could use it on N PC's.

> 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.

Same as IP - it is either name or number. Not 256 x 256 x 256 x 256 but
just 64 x 1024.

Arne