[ih] DNS origins?

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

the Intel 8086 GRiD Compass and it's GRiDOS operating system was quite the
cat's meow for its day:
- a multitasking OS with dynamic memory management
- a networked file system that operated on a LAN as well as over the PSTN
at 1200 baud to GRiD Central (or to ones LAN Server... yours truly had one
of these in at home :-)
- an "eStore" capability, where one could/would purchase sw and download it
- no moving parts with Bubble Memory storage

for more, check out this report covering the Grid Compass panel discussion,
which was held March 15, 2006 at the Computer History Museum in Mt View, CA:

"*Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD Compass*"
https://www.sigcis.org/weissberger_grid_full

geoff

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:14 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 10-Jun-21 13:26, Carsten Bormann via Internet-history wrote:
> > On 10. Jun 2021, at 00:01, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> no one had laptops yet
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass:
> >
> > Release date  April 1982
>
> https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=900 makes interesting
> reading. It answers my first question: "...one of the first graphic amber
> plasma flat screen."
>
>     Brian
>
> >
> > (I vividly remember seeing one on a trade show, probably 1983, and
> thinking “so this is the way we are going to work”…
> > Took till 1988 until I had my first Toshiba laptop.
> > Added a portable ink-jet, and I completely dominated the standards
> meetings with that combo.
> > Modem and "FTP Software”’s PC/TCP...
> > At the time, the main equipment supporting a standards meeting was a
> kitchen-size Xerox copier pipeline…  But I digress.)
> >
> > Grüße, Carsten
> >
>
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