[LINK] [AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday ... AARNet

[Geoff Huston]

On 26/03/2009, at 1:14 PM, Mark Prior wrote:

> Ian Peter wrote:
>>> When I left the University of Adelaide in 1986 we were still running
>>> DECnet on campus but it had disappeared from the router's  
>>> configuration
>>> on the link to the SA regional network (and hence to AARNet) so I  
>>> would
>>> guess around that timeframe. I suspect that it didn't get migrated
>>> during the transition from the AGS+ to 7500 routers.
>>
>>
>> Doubt it as Aarnet didn't start till 1989 and at that stage  
>> apparently was
>> multi-protocol
>
> Trust me to typo the date. It should have been 1996. There weren't any
> Cisco routers in Oz in 86 either.
>
>

[all list cc's dropped except link - there are folk there that may  
find this old fart stuff brings back some memories, fond or  
otherwise :-) ]


I have the first cisco purchased in oz at home somewhere I believe.  
csiro bought in in 1989 and aarnet bought it off csiro in 1990. they  
were hybridges and they cost $15,000 per unit at the time.

We dropped Decnet long before 95. I think noone really remembers when  
because by the time it fell from the routers noone was using Decnet  
much any more. Digital was trying to get its customer base to migrate  
from Decnet Phase IV to Decnet Phase V (which was supposedly built to  
the OSI specs) and what was happening on the campuses was that  
campuses were ditching the entire vendor-based networking systems   
and  the entire networking services landscape changed from terminals  
and terminal switch networks connected up to central boxes to the  
emerging clouds of pcs in the latter part of the 80s and tcp/ip was  
the one piece of protocol glue that all kinds of equipment could  
support.


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