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From: jg@esd.sgi.COM (John Giannandrea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: iserver - afserver compatibility
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Date: 9 Mar 91 11:32:49 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lr@cs.brown.edu's message of 7 Mar 91 14:56:19 GMT


lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo) writes:
   Does anyone have reference/information about the compatibility of
   afserver and iserver ? Is the protocol across the link totally
   different, or there is a chance to run AFSERVER-based programs
   with ISERVER ?

The protocol is completely different.  However INMOS had an occam
protocol translator at one point.  I have no idea if they would 
make it available.