name resolution

[Liam Proven]

On 26 November 2017 at 06:18, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
> I was just earning my spurs back then, but worked at both UPS's IS HQ and JP
> Morgan on Wall St., and both were running Netware over Token Ring/IPX.  (As
> well as SNA/SAA uplinks to the mainframes.)  And at JP Morgan, doing remote
> host lookups was like watching paint dry.

I believe you. Must admit I barely touched BrokenString, AKA IBM Token
Ring -- too expensive for most of my clients (in 1980s/early 1990s
UK). Only hardcore IBM shops used it, IME. I was more in the DEC
world.

> OK.  I loved DR-DOS, but I'm not sure I'm masochistic enough to want to fire
> up a VM to re-experience the pain.  (I say this as someone with a Sun, a
> NeXT, an IMSAI 8080, and two Amigas in my basement.)

:-D

Quite...

I have a cunning plan. It's to form a distraction-free writing
environment, but still with a fairly rich word processor.

DOS can just barely do networking ;-) but it can't do Wifi or the Web.
But my plan is a bootable USB key that can run a choice of classic
DOS-era wordprocessors and related tools, run on almost any PC or
laptop, but while you're booted off it, you _can't_ get distracted by
playing with the Internet. :-)

BTW, you might find the mailing lists on http://www.classiccmp.org/ to
be of interest.

> I loved SATA because it let us standardize on laptop HD connectors.

(?)

Laptop SATA is different to desktop SATA though. Well, the connector
is. Laptops have an all-in-one power/data connector, desktops have
separate ones. (And TBH I'm still not sure why they switched from
Molex power connectors, except that the newer ones are slimmer. But
then notebook PATA hard disks didn't _have_ a separate power
connector.)


>  But I
> *really* loved it because SCSI -- which I loved back in the 80's

Yup.

> -- I'd come
> to loathe by the mid-90's:

Yup!

> 47 different freaking connectors, and then
> terminators were active, passive, or some weird thing in the middle.  Just
> made me shake my head in confusion, and HATE having to try to track down the
> right stuff.

Yes yes yes!

Great when it worked. A nightmare when it didn't.

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