On 14 September 2016 at 17:56, j...@cimmeri.com <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote: > 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)
I honestly don't know what cabling SAGE MainLAN used. It may have been related. D9 connectors, about 4Mb/s speed? > * LittleBigLAN (never heard of or saw) > * The $25 Network (never heard of or saw) Odd... They were sold in the UK as being American imports... > * NFS (there were SUNs at the-then NBS (Bureau of Standards) > (but I rarely encountered UNIX anywhere) I put in a load of Xenix and later some SCO Unix boxes running multiuser accounts, often replacing CCP/M and CDOS systems -- but they were never networked. I never saw CP/M networked in my life. > * 3Com 3+Share (saw only one place -- at NASA Goddard) Weird. Quite a big product in the UK in the '80s. > * Sage MainLAN (never heard of) SAGE -- British accountancy s/w company. US tax law is different; Brits can't use US financial or accounts s/w. Gave an opening for UK players to get big. > * Personl Netware (never saw) Typo for "Personal" of course. Wasn't big here. > * Netware Lite (never saw) Ditto. One of 'em was bundled with Novell DOS 6 or 7. I forget which. That gave it a boost but it was a PITA to configure. Already, by then, people were mainly shipping NDIS drivers for WfWg which _did_ work but in a painful way and wasted a ton of RAM. > * DEC Pathworks (saw only two places -- NASA G and NBS) It wasn't big but a lot of VAX users ran it. It bundled a ton of useful stuff from email to X.11 servers, but it was as slow as hell, burned RAM and was a pig to configure. Never played nice with WfWg. > Most frequently worked with: > * Netware 3.x& 4.x 2 and 3 here. 4 was the beginning of the end. It foisted mandatory NDS on a million single-served microbusinesses who had no need for it, and the needless complexity and pain killed the product. Most egregious case of corporate suicide I ever saw. > * Lantastic I forgot that. I think I saw that very occasionally. > * Windows / Microsoft Well, yes. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
