[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Sep 18 10:05:10 PDT 2018


On 09/18/2018 12:43 PM, Mark Pizzolato 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.

  Ahh, ok!

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

  I don't suppose you (or they) might still have a copy of the media?

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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