fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) (12/13/84)
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Recently received a presentation from Spartacus (based in Massachusetts)
who have put TCP/IP + the Arpanet utility suite on /370 architectures
under VM/SP (and supposedly working on MVS) and also under PC-DOS (using
the 3Com card). To get from all the workstations and PC's connected to
Ethernet to the IBM world, they sell an Ethernet-to-Block Multiplexer Channel
"black box" protocol converter.
Several Motorola people involved with corporate standards for CAD/CAE
are going to see if it really flies like they say. If there's interest
I'll pass on what they find out.
Some may recall that Spartacus was originally going to develop a
370-in-a-micro box. The XT/370 and AT/370 cut them off at the pass, so they
quit the business and are into networks.