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[Carl Makin]

On 26/03/2009, at 5:42 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Circa 1988/9 in Sydney, I recall setting up a Vax (DEC) file server  
> to allow PC
> and Mac users to share/exchange files. It may have been DECNET/ 
> Appletalk
> and DECNET?? for the MSWindows PCs...and Rainbows.

Probably Dec Pathworks which ran MS Lan manager 2.1 over DECNET on  
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Pathworks for Mac.  We ran both around  
then when I was at the Department of Health.

It was chosen as the Department's PC networking standard in a trial  
against Netware 3.11 over Token Ring.

> From memory, the network gurus were all for TCP/IP but at the time,  
> there
> wasn't the support for things like filesharing. But I could be wrong  
> and the PCs
> may have  been runnig TCP/IP.

Our network guys were also for TCP/IP but the government was still  
enamoured with GOSIP and DECNET was claimed to be moving towards GOSIP  
compliance.


Carl.