1 Jul
2022
1 Jul
'22
8:37 p.m.
We were not using a VAX. We were using a machine called the "RT-PC" and it
ran BSD 4.3 or 4.2 (I disremember which).
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:05 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 10:00, Marc Donner
<marc.donner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(Back in the mid-1980s when I wanted to connect IBM Research connect to
uunet we started with friends at DEC, since their node was pretty central.
Their management intervened and told us that we could connect through
decvax if we called our machine 'ibm-vax' ... I rejected that. We ended up
connecting through another research lab nearby.)
Was IBM Research using a VAX as their point of contact with the outside
world? What was it running?
-Henry