SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (06/30/87)
From: Rick Dilalla (Danielson, CT Fido)
Subj: Press Release 2010 AD
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., Jan 7, 2010 - Xerox today announced HYPER-ETHERNET,
their 4th generation local-area-network. In addition to its ability to
transmit text, data and images, H-E enables the xmission of people.
"People transmission over H-E", M. Liddle, VP Office systems, "will
greatly reduce elevator congestion and eliminate the need for video
conferencing." Order taking for H-E will begin next month.
Installation will start in Los Angeles in the 3rd Quarter.
In a related announcement, Wang Labs announced Super-Hyper-Wangnet,
their 12th generation local-area-network. According to Freddie Wang,
President, "S-H-W will not only transmit people over Wangnet, but will
also transmit furniture and buildings over the interconnect and utility
bands. These additional capabilities of S-H-W are vital to the emerging
office of the future." Order taking for Super-Hyper-Wangnet will begin
next month. Installation has ALREADY OCCURED WORLDWIDE.
IBM, who has been rumored to be about to announce a local area network
since 1980, was not available for comment.
TEWKSBURY, MA., April 1, 2010 - DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP announced today
its new DECnet Phase XVIII Architecture. In response to recent Xerox
and Wang improvements to Ethernet that provide people and facility
transport across inter-node links, DEC's latest DECnet provides these
capabilities as well as providing for the creation of Virtual Facilities
and even COUNTRIES. These capabilties are provided by breakthroughs in
communications technology that actually uses the Ether as a
communications medium. Through the use of a new dedicated
NANO-PDP-11/E99 gateway processor system, ETHERGATE, DECnet users can
access anywhere in the Ethereal Plane.
This development obsoletes telecoferencing, since meeting groups can
create their own common conference rooms and cafeterias, thus resolving
space, travel and dining problems. There may be a few bugs left, as
some of the dissenting DECnet Review Group members have not been seen
since the last meeting held in such a virtual conference facility.
This breakthrough was brought about by a team of the Distributed
Systems' Software and Hardware engineering teams in an effort to improve
on their Tewksbury facility. In a compromise decision, Dis-Sys will
maintain an ETHERGATE in TWO00 but it will connect directly to their new
headquarters somewhere in the Shire of their newly defined Middle-Earth
reality. Despite some difficulties, the scenery, windows, tax-breaks,
pool and racquetball courts made the relocation go quite smoothly.
Engineering Network topology will not change, as all forwarding of
E-Mail will be done by the TWO00 Ethereal-Plane-Router residing in the
crater left by their former building site.
MAYNARD, MA., 12-May-2010. DEC today announced a new line of software
products to support its recently released ETHERGATE. Utility packages
such as Ethereal Person Transfer (EPT) and Ethereal Facility Transfer
(EPT) will provide the appropriate capabilities for casual users.
Sophisticated users can create ($CREATE), access ($OPEN) and delete
($NUKE) ethereal entities transparently from high-level languages using
the Ethereal Management System (EMS) package and the Ethereal Access
Protocol (EAP). An ETHERTRIEVE utility for easy interactive use will be
available shortly.
DECnet Phase XVIII follows on the success of the Phase XVI ability to
access *everyone's* Digital Professional Wristwatch computer system.
This lead the the current Phase XVII architecture, which has routing
capabilites that allow direct communications with the entire Earth
population's Atari home-video games.
Distributed Systems architects are hard at work on the next phase of
DECnet that will include multi-plane existence network management and
*galaxy* level routing using 64 kilo-bit addresses.
Digital will continue to support its Gateway products into the Prime
Material Plane. These products include and IBM ANA (Acronym-based
Network Architecture) Gateway, the TOLKIEN product that allows control
over all RING-BASED network topologies {sic}, and our
"Mega-Broad-Jump-Band" hardware which leaps way past Wang's products in
the HYPE-WEARY business marketplace.