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From: boykin@calliope.Encore.COM (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Does Data General under AOS/VS use TCP/IP?
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Date: 21 Nov 89 13:52:29 GMT
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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).

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Joe Boykin
Encore Computer Corp
Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Societies'
    Technical Activities Board

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