[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
lee.gleason at comcast.net
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