From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] datakit
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:35:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820153503.13cd0594@garlic.apnic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ff31f77de8ac5fe8ca97e6df6556e57@plan9.bell-labs.com>
early ethernets were disgusting. I used one which was a standalone S100-bus
box the size of a microwave oven, with DR11-W cabling to a Vax, The only
network we had on it was cu/tip.
it would not have been hard for Datakit to be remarkably better than this.
as a single-vendor solution, from the days when the equipment seller was also
the network provider, I think Datakit would have been nice to use. But in a
multiple-provider world, the same pressures we have now on vendor neutrality,
inter-provider addressing, end-to-end-ness would be driving it into a plethora
of (non compatible) variants, and problems.
-George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-20 5:05 dmr
2004-08-20 5:35 ` George Michaelson [this message]
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2004-08-19 15:11 Steve Simon
2004-08-20 1:35 ` geoff
2004-08-20 1:52 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-20 2:43 ` geoff
2004-08-20 3:09 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-20 5:46 ` geoff
2004-08-21 0:33 ` ron minnich
2004-08-21 4:51 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-21 14:22 ` Brantley Coile
2004-08-22 9:50 ` Tim Newsham
2004-08-23 2:50 ` ron minnich
2004-08-20 14:13 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-20 9:45 ` C H Forsyth
2004-08-20 13:06 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-08-20 16:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-20 17:07 ` rog
2004-08-22 19:06 ` Jack Johnson
2004-08-20 18:41 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-21 16:37 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-08-21 17:19 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-08-20 3:30 ` ron minnich
2004-08-20 14:24 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-23 15:04 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-08-23 15:27 ` ron minnich
2004-08-20 13:48 ` boyd, rounin
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