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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Carl Makin wrote:
> 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.

sounds plausible

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

I thought the debate was TokenRing vs Ethernet for the lowest level of the OSI 
model.

Netware/DECNET/TCP/IP etc were the next level up.

Marghanita
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