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From: ced@apollo.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: purchasing the HP/Apollo 9000 series 400 workstations
Message-ID: <4c83abee.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 20:03:00 GMT
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From article <1781@tuvie>, by mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik):
> I have a question concerning the network adapters for the HP/Apollo
> 9000 Series 40: at the introduction of the new series, I got the 
> impression that you would get an ethernet controller by default, but
> could add an Apollo Token Ring controller - _without_ forfeiting the  
> ethernet controller. This is what I gathered from the first price list also.
> (The options for the ATR (AL #3 here in Austria) said "adds" not 
> "converts", as some other options did!)
> 
> Now we ordered one and the order says _or_ which sound like _XOR_. 
> Has anybody received clarification from the people who _really_ know 
> what this means (_ior_ vs. _xor_).  Was the _ior_ just a machination 
> to make the HP 9000 Series 400 better to Apollo customers, or is it for real? 
> 

Mike,

The Series 400 Ethernet controller is built-in on the system board. When you
order a system with the ATR included, you end up with all the hardware and 
software necessary to run both controllers simultaneously. There is a new way
of setting the primary network, however. instead of running CONFIG from the 
MD prompt, you execute a command called PNET, which sets the primary network.
Read your owners manual when your system arrives for details.

I've run my prototype machine on both ATR and Ethernet and both work quite 
well. Now if I could just get that '040 system board upgrade out of the
project manager ...   :-) :-) 

Enjoy your new machine. I certainly have!

Regards,
Carl

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