[TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!

[Jim Capp]

Yes, we used MMDF quite extensively until TCP/IP. 


I remember paying $800 for a network card for a PC in the mid 90's. 


Just this week, I discarded a box filled with old 10/100 cards. 



From: "Mike Knell via TUHS" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> 
To: "Paul Ruizendaal" <pnr at planet.nl> 
Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:27:26 AM 
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! 



> On 18 Mar 2021, at 10:44, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote: 
> 
> Does anybody here know the backstory to Micnet and/or how it worked? 

The Xenix communications manual has plenty of detail on how to set it up: 
http://www.nj7p.org/Manuals/PDFs/Intel/174461-001.pdf 

Looks as if it built a routed network among a set of Xenix machines using 
conventional serial lines, including remote login / file transfer / mail 
ervices. Would have been quite a big selling point for software development 
shops in the days before TCP/IP and ubiquitous connectivity, especially as 
it looks as if it was decentralised and didn’t require any extra server 
hardware. MMDF could route mail between Micnet and UUCP. 

Mike 



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