GARY@ACC.ARPA (Gary Krall) (10/07/85)
ACC has recently delivered to Rutgers University (re: Messrs. Hendrick and Marantz) a IBM to Ethernet attachment. Functionally it is the same basic hardware as the 370/DDN interface (ie. Block Mux interface to the channel with 68000 micro's running in a multi-processing environment) except that it attaches directly to the LAN. For host processors running MVS it uses the UCLA developed code set (re: Bob Braden) and has yet to be tested for VM (which we believe should work based on the McKay article in Signal). The Rutgers system is a beta site and ACC will keep you aprised as to the developments. Let me know if you require additional information. Regards, Gary Krall ------
medin%orion@AMES.ARPA (Milo Medin, NASA ARC Code EDN Advanced Systems G) (10/07/85)
I'd heard about the ACC product, and it looks to be pretty fast, but I'm concerned about the software support, especially re: block mode emulation of remote TTY's. I believe the remote system should be the guy to do the block mode interpretation, not the IBM machine, since the remote machine certainly should know the screen characteristics of the terminal... Milo