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Re: [SLE] Odd (to me) addressing question
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:55:43 -0400
- Message-id: <4150CD8F.2050509@xxxxxxxxxx>
jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My path in the PC world, was DOS > OS/2 > Linux, with some Windows on the side. However, long before I ever touched DOS, I had my first computer, an IMSAI 8080 and also serviced various minicomputers, including Data General Nova & Eclipse, DEC PDP8, PDP-11 & VAX 11/780 among others, so I was playing with VAX/VMS, before I ever touched DOS. I even worked on the systems, that employed the 1st LAN technology. I also used to service some Collins 8500C computers, which had a LAN, but instead of packets, like ethernet, it used time slots on the cable. If a device wanted to send, it would reserve its' time slot to transmit. There were 2 speeds used. The "TDX" loop ran at 8 Mb and the "TDM" loop at 2. The TDX loop was used for things like disk and tape drives, while the printer and card punch & reader were on the TDM loop etc. The loops were constructed of triaxial cable for the TDX loop and coax on the TDM. They were configured as rings.
Late?? not really, *old* cp/m -> dos -> os/2 -> linux
yeah, my path w/ the little boxes , as well. Did you ever get to play
w/ the big iron? <G> It still amazes me that people insist there was no
"internet" before Berners-Lee invented the weg organization of it...
<Sigh>
( not to in anyway denigrate that gentleman's contribution, we would
very likely still be a small community of geeks rather than the
current world wide conglomerate of computer users. Even some few w/
real knowledge of the power we weild. <g>)
My path in the PC world, was DOS > OS/2 > Linux, with some Windows on the side. However, long before I ever touched DOS, I had my first computer, an IMSAI 8080 and also serviced various minicomputers, including Data General Nova & Eclipse, DEC PDP8, PDP-11 & VAX 11/780 among others, so I was playing with VAX/VMS, before I ever touched DOS. I even worked on the systems, that employed the 1st LAN technology. I also used to service some Collins 8500C computers, which had a LAN, but instead of packets, like ethernet, it used time slots on the cable. If a device wanted to send, it would reserve its' time slot to transmit. There were 2 speeds used. The "TDX" loop ran at 8 Mb and the "TDM" loop at 2. The TDX loop was used for things like disk and tape drives, while the printer and card punch & reader were on the TDM loop etc. The loops were constructed of triaxial cable for the TDX loop and coax on the TDM. They were configured as rings.
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