dave@soph.UUCP (Dave Brownell) (01/09/85)
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I'm hunting for folk who connect IBM machines to the Ethernet. I have
some information about Spartacus, which I summarize below for anyone
interested. I have heard of a company called OsCom (?spelling?) which
ostensibly produces an Ethernet connect of some kind.
Does anyone have information about OsCom, at least its real name? Do
any of you know of other companies connecting IBM mainframes to
Ethernet?
Spartacus information:
Spartacus Computers Inc.
Bedford, MA
(800) LAN-KNET
Spartacus provides an Ethernet channel connect box which
connects to standard Ethernet transceivers. It also provides
a TCP/IP package called KNET, and uses TCP/IP to connect PCs
(3Com controller) as 3278 terminals.
Spartacus is selling into the Scientific/Engineering market;
KNET is currently offered only under CMS. An MVS version is
planned for mid 1985, and the XNS protocol family will be provided
sometime after the MVS version is available.
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Dave Brownell
EnMasse Computer Corporation
enmasse!dave@Harvard.ARPA
{genrad,harvard}!enmasse!daverpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) (01/10/85)
+--------------- | I'm hunting for folk who connect IBM machines to the Ethernet... | ... I have heard of a company called OsCom (?spelling?) which | ostensibly produces an Ethernet connect of some kind... | Does anyone have information about OsCom, at least its real name? +--------------- I believe you are referring to "Auscom", in Austin, Texas. I have seen their large ads (in Electronics News? EEN? Electronics Week? Data Communications?). I would also be interested if you find out anything about them. (I don't know if they are any relation to "Austron", also of Austin, who used to make general-purpose IBM channel interfaces, which a previous employer of mine many years ago used quite successfully.) Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!dual}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 510 Trinidad Lane, Foster City, CA 94404
joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey) (01/11/85)
IBM sells a device called a 7170, aka DACU (Device Attachment Control Unit), which is a channel interface on one side, and a 4-slot UNIBUS backplane on the other side connected by a large amount of fast memory, controlled by a PC(!). Anyway, this device lets you plug your favorite UNIBUS device into your favorite 370 channel. IBM also sells WISCNET, the UofWisconsin TCP/IP for VM/SP. WISCNET will run TCP/IP over X.25 networks through a Series/1, or on LANs using either ProNet or Ethernet hardware. We have an Interlan NI1010A controller on the DACU and have little problem communicating between the IBM and VAXen and SUNs on the Ethernet. /Joe