[131811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Thu Nov 4 16:16:39 2010
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:16:21 -0600
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4CD307DA.9090601@packetpimp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/4/10 1:22 PM, Jason LeBlanc wrote:
> This is bringing back memories of DecNet and LAT, not good ones either.
LAT... I think I've seen one network with that in actual use - I
believe it was coupled with uniplex and IBM 5250 serial terminals (going
back to the mid 90s). I now finally understand why the sysadmin there
(a woman, which was rare in a male dominated field) was always
exhausted, stressed, and wanting to throw terminals out the front door. :)
--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
