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What happened before the turn of the century?While tekniche was formed in 1993, there is a wealth of experience gained by the principal, Dr Dennis Perry, in office systems and the Internet. Evidence of early Internet e-mail correspondence is interesting. When a particular problem with the network arose it was usually quicker to post a question on the Internet, and get it answered, than to get a response over the telephone from the local suppliers. This was the point when Perry realised how powerful and important the Internet would become. The following anecdote illustrates such an experience "Imagine my surprise when I was using the AltaVista search engine, in the years before Google existed, and I typed in Dennis Perry. It seems AT&T's mail system had been indexed, and the following message, dating back to 1992, came up. AT&T took over NCR and presumably took over ownership of e-mail sent to NCR. I have edited the following e-mail to remove an old typo and a duplicate signature line. Who knows what else will be indexed in the fullness of time. Marshall Rose, a key player in the triumph of Internet e-mail over alternative systems, says he has saved every mail message he has sent and received. In 1996 this was reputed to be 10 Gb in size, and one suspects almost none of it was spam in those days. One interesting aspect of the message is the signature. It shows the first e-mail address in the Victorian Government domain: premier1.mau.vicgov.oz.au. Premier1 was the Motorola UNIX host (premier2 was the NCR UNIX host), mau was Ministerial Advisers Unit and vicgov was the first attempt to define a government domain, in the pre-AARNet days. The Victorian government domain was properly set up many years later as vic.gov.au, and the vicgov domain was abolished and the associated Class B licence released for AARNet to reissue." Boot Time Loadable drivers for SCODennis Perry (drp@premier1.mau.vicgov.oz.au)
I'm running SCO UNIX 3.2.2 on an NCR 3445. I want to upgrade to SCO UNIX 3.2.4, but I'm told I need a Boot Time Loadable driver for the SCSI Hard drive. NCR in Melbourne doesn't know where to get it and the local SCO distributor says talk to NCR. Does anybody else know what to do? ---
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