houpt@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Thomas Houpt) (11/14/89)
A friend of mine is trying to network a Data General computer running AOS/VS to Macintoshes with ethernet. The DG is controlling a Magnetic Resonance Imgaing system for brain scans, and is already networked to its "peripherals" (an MRI scanner, a vector processor, and a display terminal) via an ehternet cluster box. The cluster box has a total of 9 ports, of which only 3 are being used. He wants to plug a transceiver box into one of the unused ports, and run coax to a Mac ethernet card so he can downloadscanned image files for display. The question is, does the DG use TCP-IP on its ethernet network, or is it available (along with ftp for the file transfer) for the DG operating system. Once we know its possible to get TCP-IP/FTP running, we know what to do. But we are sufficiently unfamiliar with the DG operating system not to know if this is trivial or impossible. I noticed a few replies posted here titled "Re Data General" , but I missed the beginng of the exchange. So I apologize if I am asking a recently asked question over again. Thanks in advance.
boykin@calliope.Encore.COM (Joseph Boykin) (11/21/89)
In article <3159@husc6.harvard.edu> houpt@husc8.UUCP (Thomas Houpt) writes: > >A friend of mine is trying to network a Data General computer >running AOS/VS to Macintoshes with ethernet. ... >The question is, does the DG use TCP-IP on its ethernet network, >or is it available (along with ftp for the file transfer) for the >DG operating system. Once we know its possible to get TCP-IP/FTP >running, we know what to do. But we are sufficiently unfamiliar with the >DG operating system not to know if this is trivial or impossible. I haven't worked for DG for about 4 years, however, before I left there was a TCP/IP product available for AOS/VS. While things may have changed I would strongly doubt that they use TCP/IP as their "standard" protocol. In fact, the most often used protocol was X.25. I'm sure DG would be happy to sell you TCP/IP (and ftp, etc. that went along with it). ---- Joe Boykin Encore Computer Corp Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Societies' Technical Activities Board Internet: boykin@encore.com UUCP: encore!boykin