[fa.info-vax] New TCP-IP available for VMS

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/28/85)

From: George J. Carrette <GJC@MIT-MC.ARPA>

I installed the new Excelan implmenetation, which is in Beta-Test,
on my VMS VAX at Lisp Machine Inc yesterday. It works well and
the documentation looks great. The interesting thing about this
implementation is that most of the hair involved happens on-the-board,
so that what the driver presents at the QIO LEVEL are calls such
as OPEN_SOCKET, SOCKET_LISTEN, CLOSE_SOCKET, UDP_READ, UDP_WRITE,
etc. This is as usual for the other Excelan implementations/board,
multibus, Unix, Lispmachine. An extra kick for the VMS product
is that the TELNET terminal function is also implemented on the
board, and a extra device driver for XXA0:, XXA1:, XXA2: , ...
are used instead of the usual TELNET_SERVER_PROCESS feeding
from/to a PTY.

The downloadable software Excelan delivers now only supports an ETHERNET
driver, even though there is an intel SBX bus on the board, onto which
one can connect various daughter boards for serial sync, async,
parallel, ieee-488 etc.