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

[gah4]

On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 12:51:48 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

(snip, I wrote)

> > 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. 

Yes, a five digit number.

And if I remember right, it was through a 56 kbit/s link.

Slow, but fast enough for remote login.  Sometimes there was
a delay, though. 

That was about 1987, when a fast cross country network used
a T1 line, but this wasn't one.  Actually, some of the links might
have been T1, but just not the one I was on.