l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > switch to PC). the mid-80s, PC and workstations were getting > sophisticated enough that they were becoming there own network nodes as > part of distributed computing ... except with heavy mainframe > datacenters (both internally and with customers) ... but the > communication division was attempting to staunchly preserve their > terminal emulation install base. While on the internet ... more&more of > these workstations and PCs were becoming network nodes ... on the > internal network, they were still restricted to only doing terminal > emulation. misc. past posts mentioning terminal emulation > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
additional topic drift is nsfnet backbone (the operational precursor to the modern internet). I had been doing HSDT (high-speed data transport) project which included working with some of the participants that would be part of the NSFNET backbone. misc. past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt When the RFP came out, there was various internal politics and we were precluded from bidding. The director of NSF wrote a letter to the corporation (copying the CEO) trying to at least get some participation in the activity (had support from chief scientist from various gov. agencies). The letter just aggravated the internal politics that prevented us from bidding on the RFP in the first place (references to having deployed technology internally that was at least five years ahead of all bid submissions <to build something new>, didn't help). ... misc. old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet in the middle of HSDT, some of the technology was being built on the other side of the pacific. The friday before a business trip there, the communication group announced a new internal discussion group on high speed communication ... the announcement included the following definitions: low-speed <9.6kbits medium-speed 19.2kbits high-speed 56kbits very high-speed 1.5mbits The following monday in a conference room (on the other side of the pacific), there were the following definitions: low-speed <20mbits medium-speed 100mbits high-speed 200-300mbits very high-speed >600mbits as an aside, internal discussion groups had come a long way. I had been blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when the executive committee (chairman, ceo, pres, etc) were finally informed about computer conferencing (and the internal network), five of six wanted to immediately fire me (the purported hold-out went on to provide the funding channeled into HSDT). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, 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
