8 Feb
2018
8 Feb
'18
12:01 a.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...] But much VMS, whatever HP minicomputer stuff was floating around
(MPE?) and all VM/CMS (I guess it was actually VM/ESA by that time)
disappeared; VAXstations, serial terminals and 3179G's were all replaced
by PCs running Windows and the users were replaced by these smiling
robots. It was weird.
Somehow, most of the Unix people managed to escape. I wonder why? [...]
I wonder, too, if Unix networking didn't play a major role. I have this dim
sense that NT was designed for a world in which it was still assumed that
the OSI suite was going to win the networking wars. [...]
I was in my late teens around that time but I got the impression that in
the early to mid 1990s when this shift was happening, networking was
moving to IP and all the IP software was Unix - certainly it was the only
option if you wanted to run network services at the scale of a University
or ISP. At the same time Windows was all about workgroup-scale office
networking. I don't think their network protocols were OSI but Exchange
was based on X.400 and to this day still only does Internet mail
grudgingly.
Tony.
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