ral@hydra.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Roger Lighty) (04/17/91)
I understand that the OSI set of protocols do not make a standard. (I.E. There are several OSI products which meet the protocol but can't talk to each other). If you know of X on top of OSI products What s/w or h/w do they run on? and not run on? or sometimes? I don't know the level of response I will get. Please mail to me and I will summarize the input and post on comp.x.windows on 30 April '91. Roger ral@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov (If you prefer to post, I will be looking in comp.x.windows and include in summary)
cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr16.214558.22023@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ral@hydra.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Roger Lighty) writes: >I understand that the OSI set of protocols do not make a standard. >(I.E. There are several OSI products which meet the protocol but >can't talk to each other). If you know of X on top of OSI products >What s/w or h/w do they run on? and not run on? or sometimes? > >I don't know the level of response I will get. Please mail to me >and I will summarize the input and post on comp.x.windows on 30 April '91. > >Roger ral@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov > >(If you prefer to post, I will be looking in comp.x.windows and include in summary) Dear Roger, Sad, but true. The closest thing I have found to an OSI standard that has proven interoperability is the TP4 (TOP/NetBIOS) standard. I saw a net where over seven vendors used that as a means of transporting LAN Manager traffic. One of the vendors was AT&T, who is missing from the CP1 bandwagon (but secretly has it). AT&T has a line of X-terms, from mono 1Kx1K resolution to higher res and 256 colors. Each of the models has the option of being supported by IP or OSI. They are the only vendor that *I* know of who has an OSI-like XTerm. I would suppose any other vendor who uses UNIX and TP4 would have the Streams-ability to support X11 in a similar manner, but I haven't seen any others out there except those who relicense AT&T's LAN Manager, AT&T's OSI Transport...but those vendors include NCR, Data General (hot new box, eh?), Olivetti, Unisys, and about 4 other European companies. I did hear recently that SCo is coming out with LAN Manager for UNIX and will be supporting TP4 as well. Good Hunting...! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift |