tim@Data-IO.COM (The Daemon's Slave) (04/28/88)
Does anyone know of anybody that has a TCP/IP board, much like the Excelan product, that will work on the BI bus and is available today? Excelan's product for the BI won't be available till 4th quarter of this year. Putting a Unibus adapter on is out of the question (It's MIS's machine). We can wait if need be but if there is one available today I'd like to know about it. It also must have software (mail bridge, ftp, telnet, etc) much like Excelan's product. Any info would be much appreciated. -- <tim@Data-IO.COM> ..uunet Tim Rosmus (Sys Admin) ..sun!fluke----------\ | Data I/O Corporation ..uw-beaver------------!tikal!pilchuck!tim 10525 Willows Road N.E. ..decvax!microsoft---/ Redmond, WA (206)881-6444
pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt) (04/28/88)
In article <876@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>, tim@Data-IO.COM (The Daemon's Slave) writes: > > Does anyone know of anybody that has a TCP/IP board, much like the > Excelan product, that will work on the BI bus and is available today? > > Excelan's product for the BI won't be available till 4th quarter of Digital's DEBNA will share TCP/IP and DECnet and has been available for some time
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (04/29/88)
>In article <876@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> tim@Data-IO.COM (The Daemon's Slave) >writes: >> Does anyone know of anybody that has a TCP/IP board, much like the >> Excelan product, that will work on the BI bus and is available today? In article <465@tsc.dec.com> pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt) writes: >Digital's DEBNA will share TCP/IP and DECnet and has been available for >some time He said `like the Excelan product': a board with the TCP/IP code *on the board*. The DEBNA relies on the host for this. And now that I have your attention ... WHERE does one get the documentation for the BI Vax Port Network Interface? I have the register bits for the DEBNT, but still cannot use the two I have, because I have no idea how to make them do anything useful. All I know how to do is point them to memory. What goes in the memory? And WHY is buying documentation for DEC's hardware products from DEC so blasted difficult?! If you want to sell hardware, how about letting us know how to program it, too? DEC has come a long way from the original PDP series, and in the matter of documentation, for the worse. Just try buying MSCP documentation (QP905-GZ, or whatever it is): `Oops, we can't sell that to you.' `Why not?' `Because it might be useful.' Arrh. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris