bobbyo@celerity.UUCP (Bob Ollerton) (10/14/86)
The only source for Decnet protocols for Unix (or any other
os besides those from Dec!) is:
Technology Concepts
40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, Mass. 01776
(617) 443-7311
We have spoke with a Gigi Wang who is their marketing director.
The package looks like good stuff and appears to be portable if
you use their Ethernet drivers. They provide remote login and
file transfer using Decnet protocols over Ethernet. I think
they have implemented two of the Decnet protocols (?) to
do this...
Hope this helps.david@varian.UUCP (David Brown) (10/14/86)
Technology Concepts
40 Tall Pine Dr.
Sudbury MA 01776
(617) 443-7311
sells a product called CommUnity, which is supposed to be compatible
with DECnet. When it first was announced, it was called Portable DECnet,
but I guess DEC made them change the name. The current literature says
that it is portable to any OS, and they have implemented it on 68K,
80186 and PC systems running DOS, 4.2BSD, and UNIX sV. The early
announcements (3/85) that I saw claimed that it ran on VRTX and pSOS,
but these are no longer mentioned in later literature.
I believe that the DECnet implementation announced recently by Sun is
based on this product. Perhaps someone from Sun can give us more details.
--
David Brown (415) 945-2199
Varian Instruments 2700 Mitchell Dr. Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598
{ptsfa,lll-crg,zehntel,dual,amd,fortune,ista,rtech,csi}!varian!davidcoleman@sask.UUCP (10/20/86)
> > Technology Concepts > 40 Tall Pine Dr. > Sudbury MA 01776 > (617) 443-7311 > > sells a product called CommUnity, which is supposed to be compatible > with DECnet. When it first was announced, it was called Portable DECnet, I called these people this week and found out the following. 1) except for the MS-DOS version they only sell to OEMs 2) we were interested in the product running on a 3b2 The response from Technology Concepts was: a) AT&T had been approached with no sucess b) There was some question as to which section of AT&T should be approached. If anyone from AT&T or AT&T-IS is listening could they respond please. It would seem to me that a number of places who had both 3bxs and VAXEN might be interested in obtaining this. We certainly would be!! Thanks for any responses Geoff Coleman -- Geoff Coleman | BITNET: Coleman@sask College of Engineering | UUCP: {utcsri,ihnp4}!sask!skul!geoff University of Saskatchewan | BIX: gcoleman Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | Compserve: 76515,1513 just a number S7N 0W0 (306) 966-5415