chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) (03/08/91)
Is Domain an acronym? Like Distributed ... Network?
bfoley@flare.Sun.COM (Brian Foley - Sun SE - Detroit ) (03/09/91)
In article <503a03de.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com>, chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes: |> |> Is Domain an acronym? Like Distributed ... Network? Only an old time Apollo person (ie. before HP/Apollo) should know this, if my memory serves me it's: Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Foley email: bfoley@greatlakes.Central.Sun.COM Systems Engineer snail-mail: 1000 Town Center Sun Microsystems Suite 1700 GreatLakes Region Southfield, MI 48075 phone: (313)352-7070 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ex-Apollo, and a lot of other Ex's in my past. _________________________________________________
dwv%cadnet@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Doug Vander Wilt) (03/09/91)
Here's some Apollo acronyms defined, including DOMAIN: APR Apollo probem report ATR Apollo token ring, 12MHz coax-based network DM display manager DOMAIN distributed operating multi-access interactive network DQC Domain Quick Connect (cable/connectory) DSEE Domain Software Engineering Environment GMR Graphics Metafile Resources GPIO General Purpose Input Output GPR Graphics Primitive Resources HAP hardware acceptance program MBX mailbox, communications protocol MD mnemonic debugger NCA Network Computing Architecture NCS Network Computing System NLS Network License Server SAU stand alone unit SAX system acceptance exerciser SPM server process manager UID unique identifier
beierl_c@apollo.HP.COM (Christopher Beierl) (03/09/91)
In article <503a03de.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes: > >Is Domain an acronym? Like Distributed ... Network? Once upon a time... Domain stood for Distributed Operating Multi-Access Interactive Network although that was a LONG time ago. Very few people even remember (or ever knew) that now. -Chris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Christopher T. Beierl Internet: beierl_c@apollo.HP.COM;beierl_c@apollo.com Apollo Computer, Inc. UUCP: {mit-eddie,yale,uw-beaver}!apollo!beierl_c A Subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Phone: (508) 256-6600
gaz@apollo.HP.COM (Gary Zaidenweber) (03/09/91)
From article <503a03de.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com>, by chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen): > > Is Domain an acronym? Like Distributed ... Network? Distributed Operating Multiple (?) Access Interactive Network (or so I remember from when I started back in 1984.) Gary Zaidenweber +1-508-256-6600x4360 | You're only young Apollo Systems Division, Hewlett Packard Company | once, but if you UUCP: {umix|decvax|mit-eddie}!apollo!gaz | do it right, ARPA: gaz@apollo.HP.COM FAX: +1-508-250-4943 | once is enough!
DERSTAD@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM (03/11/91)
> SAU stand alone unit
Are you sure? I thought it was Stand Alone Utilitybhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (03/11/91)
In article <9103081802.AA02918@cadnet.micro.honeywell.com> dwv%cadnet@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Doug Vander Wilt) writes: >Here's some Apollo acronyms defined, including DOMAIN: What's a VTOC? --Blair "I promise I don't know."
cees@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Cees Keyer) (03/11/91)
In article <503f12e0.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> gaz@apollo.HP.COM (Gary Zaidenweber) writes: >From article <503a03de.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com>, by chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen): >> >> Is Domain an acronym? Like Distributed ... Network? > >Distributed >Operating >Multiple (?) >Access >Interactive >Network Or, Dirty Operating Malfunctioning Aborting Imaginary Network If anoyone outhere has a better or funnier explaination for it please let me know. BTW I like the domain concept but it has some problems. #include disclaimer.h -- I am more up and down than a pair of kangaroos in the mating season Kryton Red Dwarf Cees Keyer, Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam. | fax: (+31) 20-443215 department of electrical engineering. | phone (+31) 20-429333 Email: cees@maestro.htsa.aha.nl cees@tamtam.htsa.aha.nl Snail: AHA-TMF, Europaboulevard 23, 1079 PC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
bfoley@flare.Sun.COM (Brian Foley - Sun SE - Detroit ) (03/11/91)
|> In article <9103081802.AA02918@cadnet.micro.honeywell.com> dwv%cadnet@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Doug Vander Wilt) writes: |> >Here's some Apollo acronyms defined, including DOMAIN: |> |> What's a VTOC? |> |> --Blair |> "I promise I don't know." Volume Table Of Contents Relates to the disk layout, used intead of inodes. Brian ________________________________________________________________ Brian Foley email: bfoley@greatlakes.Central.Sun.COM Systems Engineer snail-mail: 1000 Town Center Sun Microsystems Suite 1700 GreatLakes Region Southfield, MI 48075 phone: (313)352-7070 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ With talent on loan from God ;-) (Rush Limbaugh on the E.I.B network) ________________________________________
delmastro@apollo.HP.COM (Peter DelMastro) (03/11/91)
In article <9103081802.AA02918@cadnet.micro.honeywell.com>, dwv%cadnet@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Doug Vander Wilt) writes: |> Here's some Apollo acronyms defined, including DOMAIN: . . . |> SAX system acceptance exerciser Actually it's System Acceptance eXecutive. Tests that are run from SAX may test at either an exerciser or diagnostic level, SAX itself isn't either. -- Pete DelMastro delmastro@apollo.hp.com UUCP: mit-eddie!apollo!delmastro Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett Packard, Testability and Diagnostics *****************************************************************************
randall@bcstec.boeing.com (Michael Randall) (03/13/91)
In article <9103081802.AA02918@cadnet.micro.honeywell.com>, dwv%cadnet@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Doug Vander Wilt) writes: > Here's some Apollo acronyms defined, including DOMAIN: [ ... deleted for brevity ] > SAU stand alone unit Beg your pardon here, but I believe that SAU is Stand Alone Utilities. As in /sau7 /sau8 for the different machine types. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. (And send money if I'm right) :) -- -------------------- Peace Love & E-Mail ---------------------------------- Michael W. Randall | Donations accepted via E-mail. randall@bcstec.boeing.com | This space for rent... ...!uunet!bcstec!randall | ...Inquire within.
DERSTAD@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM (03/13/91)
> What's a VTOC?
Volume Table Of Contents
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