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

[Dave McGuire]

On 1/8/22 5:02 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.
> 
> Here's one of the threads from 1993 (!) that I am looking at: 
> http://www.verycomputer.com/30_4d016ca71ca3072b_1.htm
> 
> Does anyone here have pointers to some archive which might have 
> distributions of KINET?

   Well damn, I was just a few miles from there at that time, though I'd 
never heard of that company or its products.  I will ask around to the 
old crowd around there; someone might have known someone.  All of us 
DC-area tech folk regularly drank/hung out with/slept with/etc other 
DC-area tech folk. ;)

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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