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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: vendor LAN and UniForum
Message-ID: <107@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 06:49:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: eagle_sn.107
Posted: Fri Jun  5 06:49:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 05:17:36 EDT
References: <1132@osiris.UUCP>
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Keywords: LAN connectivity deja vu
Summary: nothing new about this
Xref: mnetor comp.arch:1430 comp.org.usenix:243



In article <1132@osiris.UUCP>, phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos) writes:
> ... I just got an announcement in the
> mail from /usr/group for the February 88 UniForum in Dallas ...
>
> Think they'll have a vendor LAN?

Nothing new in this. There were vendor LANs at Anaheim ('86) and Washington
('87). I missed '85, but I know Sun, Pyramid and Gould showed NFS
at that one, so there must have been some kind of net.

{ Actually, I found that the vendor LAN gave me a real edge in PC-NFS demos.
  When things got loaded down in the Sun booth, I could always switch to
  using a nearby Convex as a server..... ;-) }

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Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS)
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