On 9/14/2016 8:50 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 14 September 2016 at 03:08, Chuck Guzis<ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
There were networking packages for the PC early on. Remember Banyan? They date
from 1985. Corvus? Even Datapoint had an ARCnet facility for PCs in 1984.
Quite a few vendors had 802.3 capability. Networking, however disorganized,
was a very hot thing by 1987.
This is quite interesting in terms of an Europe/NorAm divide.
I entered the business in 1988. After 25y in support, working on
thousands of systems in half a dozen countries, from 2-man outfits to
multi-billion-dollar multinationals, no, I never ever saw any systems
whatsoever running:
* Banyan VINES
* Corvus
* ARCnet
* LittleBigLAN
* The $25 Network
(Obviously, I've heard of them.)
To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
However, I routinely worked with:
* 3Com 3+Share
* Sage MainLAN
* Personal Netware
* Netware Lite
* DEC Pathworks
Most of these never seem to get mentioned in Stateside comms.
Odd.
I too started in 1988, doing the same kind of work (mid-Atlantic region, USA),
same number and types of places. Just to compare:
* Banyan VINES (never saw)
* Corvus (saw once)
* ARCnet (saw many times)
* LittleBigLAN (never heard of or saw)
* The $25 Network (never heard of or saw)
* NFS (there were SUNs at the-then NBS (Bureau of Standards)
(but I rarely encountered UNIX anywhere)
* 3Com 3+Share (saw only one place -- at NASA Goddard)
* Sage MainLAN (never heard of)
* Personl Netware (never saw)
* Netware Lite (never saw)
* DEC Pathworks (saw only two places -- NASA G and NBS)
Most frequently worked with:
* Netware 3.x& 4.x
* Lantastic
* Windows / Microsoft
- J.
