[HECnet] KINET by KI Research - DECnet for numerous Unix flavors and OS/2?

Lee Gleason lee.gleason at comcast.net
Sat Jan 8 14:17:59 PST 2022



On 1/8/2022 4:02 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> Once upon a time there seems to have been a company called KI Research 
> at Columbia, Maryland. Circa 1994 they had for sale something called 
> KINET DNA which apparently was a user-mode DECnet stack available for 
> numerous Unix flavors and OS/2 (maybe more operating systems). I came 
> across the name looking for a DECnet implementation for HP-UX.
>
   Can't help much, other than to say that, for my sins, I once had to 
system manage an IBM AIX system that a rogue engineering department 
bought without IT approval. To make it remotely useful in the corporate 
all DEC environment, I ordered Ki DECnet for it. It worked pretty well. 
It was still AIX, though....

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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
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