[39346] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: GRC rides again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Jul 3 01:38:32 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Mike Batchelor' <mikebat@tmcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:42:10 -0700
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> From: Mike Batchelor [mailto:mikebat@tmcs.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:25 AM
> Roeland Meyer:
> > ...As much as I hate to say it, I almost agree with MSFT
> here. That said,
> > Novell stated, decades ago, that MSFT never could
> understand network
> > security. At the time, I agreed with Novell.
>
> "Decades ago" implies more than one decade ago, which puts
> this purported
> statement by Novell sometime prior to 1981. That was a very prescient
> statement, in light of the fact that networking on
> Microsoft's then-current
> OS (DOS 1.0) had not been developed yet.
So we know that I can't type...duh! Besides, I was running a Davong
Multilink arcnet at the time, before Novell took it over (when Davong turned
turtle). We were eagerly awaiting the first IBM XT. Also, I was running
PCDOS v2.11 about then. Network by Davong and disk drives by Tallgrass. We
also had a PDP11/35 w/ RSX-11M, for POS development (TEC America, Torrance).
I guess that places the time at about 1982... six (6) MONTHS short of two
decades.
Please excuse me for not being suitably anal-retentive. Advanced senility is
hell on the old RAM isn't it?
