On 01/22/2018 11:24 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Before that, if you were lucky enough to be at Stanford, MIT, or CMU, you could use the Dover and Altos that were part of Xerox's University Grant Program. Copies of well-known papers from the early 80s are very distinctive because they were printed on them.
What made the Dover and Altos special in this context?
Eventually, the Dover was networked to other computers. Stanford had a rather big 3mbit research Ethernet made with SUN board gateways.
Intriguing. This is the 2nd time I've heard about 3 Mbps Ethernet. The first was in the series of videos that Curious Mark has shared on YouTube about the restoration of multiple Altos.
Not that any of this has much to do with Sun-3, other that it was possible to plug a SUN 3mbit ethernet board into one with a Multibus adapter. I had packets coming out of a Sun-3 a VERY long time ago and still have a bunch of the 3mbit Multibus boards.
I wonder if Curious Mark and co would be interested in possibly acquiring one of the 3 Mbps boards. (Of course that would necessitate a Sun to put it in.) - I think they hacked something together, so the need may not be that great.
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