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Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by lizknope on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:09PM (#26729555)
Did the PCs have ethernet? Our campus network had a lot of DOS PCs but they ran a bunch of DEC Pathworks stuff to turn them into terminals to the VAX. We also had some PCs with a DOS telnet client to telnet directly to the Unix machines.

Just wondering why they didn't turn the DOS machines into terminals or ethernet / network to connect to the Xenix PC tower.

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Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by pjmlp on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:56PM (#26731132)
No way, first we are talking about a high school, not something with university resources.

Then those were the days of Novell NetWare, and yes one of the labs did had a couple of them, not all, connect via Novell.

As for the Xenix tower, as mentioned, it did not belong to the high school, rather the teacher would bring it along with him from his main job, kind of renting it for the lab classes.

So nothing that could ever work in a permanent setting.

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