[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Tue Sep 18 09:43:01 PDT 2018


On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 09/18/2018 09:50 AM, Jeffrey H. Johnson wrote:
> > I was looking through an old 1986 issue of Computerworld and saw this:
> >
> > https://ban.ai/~jhj/images/sun-decnet.png
> > <https://ban.ai/%7Ejhj/images/sun-decnet.png>
> >
> > I wonder - does this still exist somewhere?
> >
> > I see there is plenty of documentation for Solstice X.25/Sunlink X.25
> > on the Oracle website, but I seem to be failing in locating any
> > Sunlink DNA information.
> 
>   In a career built mostly around Sun equipment dating back to the 68010-
> based Sun2 line, I have *never* seen this in the wild.  Even my contacts (at the
> time) within Sun Microsystems couldn't get ahold of it.
>  Back then I suspected it was vaporware and gave up on it.

It wasn't vaporware.  I set it up for someone once back in the mid to 
late 80's.

I don't recall any details though.  :-(

- Mark




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