The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Morten Reistad <fi...@last.name> writes: > SNA never embraced TCP/IP. Many others did, and the protocols survive > on top of the Internet. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#82 Small Server Mob Advantage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#83 Small Server Mob Advantage misc. old nsfnet related email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#email860417 recently going thru some boxes found copy of the letter referenced in the above ... dated 03apr86 .. recent reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#42 this is prefix to package of appended emails that were forwarded to us regarding communication group thinking that NSF might have a use for VTAM (& SNA): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109 our nsfnet backbone activities & meetings had gotten canceled ... and we were prevented from bidding on the nsfnet backbone ... even tho there was some statement that what we already had running was at least five yrs ahead of all bid submissions. there is folklore about an outside consultant hired to do a tcp/ip implementation in vtam. when it was turned in ... it ran faster than lu6.2 ... they were then supposedly told that "everybody knows that a correct tcp/ip implementation would run much slower than lu6.2 and only a correct implementation would be accepted" this old references working on trying to turn out a product that would simulate NCP/pu4 to host systems ... simulating activity as "cross-domain" ... but all resources were actually owned by the networking infrastructure ... and sna RUs then carried in "real" networking infrastructure (old posts from decade ago): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#66 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70 there were various kinds of internal politics that got involved and it never made it to announce/ship. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
