ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@UNCAEDU.BITNET (05/25/88)
The product you were referring to is by Interlink Computer Sciences.
It uses a channel-attached box for high-speed transfer.
IBM host (VM or MVS) appears to be a DECnet host.
transparent from DECnet viewpoint.
From the sales blurb I have:
Permits TSO terminal users and MVS batch jobs to send and retrieve
information from a DECnet node
Permits DEC users to send and retrieve information from any MVS host
using DCL
Provides high-speed, high volume, bi-directional information transfe.r
Attaches directly to an IBM channel and bypasses the IBM FEP (eg 3705);
it is build using a PDP 11
Links to DECnet via Ethernet or conventional point-to-point
Interfaces to RACf, ACF2 & TOPSECRET; MVS/XA & VM supported
Number sold: 170
Pricing: $45K - $130,000
Company Address: 47370 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
Phone: (415) 657-9800
Hope this helps......../Ed
disclaimer: we don't have this product, I have never seen this product, and know
nothing else about it. I provide the above because we have just
started looking for solutions and these guys look like a
possibility.pgydow@sunybcs.uucp (Bruce Dow) (05/27/88)
This product (the interlink) works quite well,
we have one here at the State University of New York at Buffalo,
it is something of a pain to make it fully transparent..
setting up a alias such that a vms user can treat it as if it were
another vms machine he had a account on requires special permissions
on the ibm. This means that most users must include their account
password and minidisk in every reference.. other than that it works
very well.....we are at last getting some use out of our 3081
as a file server and print spooler.....
usual disclaimers... I have no relationship with interlink other
than as a happy user.. and can not comment on how it is from
the implementer/maintainers point of view
(or the person who has to pay for it)
regards......Johnn Dooley