[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

[John Forecast]

> On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

I believe it was a third-party implementation from Technology Concepts, Sudbury, MA.

  John.