skip@gatech.UUCP (11/21/83)
Bridge, Sytek, and 3Com have entered an agreement with Xerox where Xerox
gave them the application level protocols to run "on top of" the XNS
Courier protocol. This would allow (after some development effort and
new product announcements) an IBM-PC to print something on the Xerox laser
print server.
Actually I'm not sure that they all got all the protocols. They each got
the protocols which make since for their particular product line. 3COM
got the Print Server protocol (Interpress), Bridge and 3COM got the gateway
access protocol (GAP), etc. At any rate, 3Com, Bridge, and Sytek are
working together to get a complete baseband-broadband network with PC and
Vax, etc., boards, gateways, and terminal servers. All the products will
be based on the XNS protocols through the application layers which will make
them all more money. Of course, the current product line doesn't incor-
porate all of this yet.
The above information came from an official at 3Com. I don't think I'm
saying anything which he didn't want me to repeat.
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