Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!synoptics!unix!hplabs!hpcc05!hpcuhb!hpindda!lyle From: lyle@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Lyle Weiman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc Subject: Re: Early microcomputer networks Message-ID: <4490001@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Date: 15 Nov 90 05:58:52 GMT References: Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 6 What, and nobody mentioned Z-Net yet? It was a completely proprietary network, implemented on Zilog's z80-based os (forgot its name), which was implemented in assembly and so pretty non-portable, but there were some folks who liked it. Z-net ran at about 800kbps, using an SIO chip, the same one that Omninet used for its 1mbps, I think.