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From: davidb@brac.inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Transputer and networking
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Date: 18 Mar 91 08:29:48 GMT
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In article <68608@brunix.UUCP> lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo) writes:
>Does anyone know about commercial/prototype systems that allow
>Transputer network to communicate via TCP/IP ? As far as I know
>the standard TDS protocols (AFSERVER and ISERVER) from Inmos do
>not offer such a possibility, even when Unix machines are used as
>a host. I know that there was an Inmos Ethernet board that only
>supported UDP, not TCP. However, I have no knowledge of non-Inmos
>products.

The ISERVER *does* now offer such a possibility. There is an INMOS
product called the IMS B300 which is a box you connect to your
ethernet and has four link/subsystem ports. The B300 runs TCP/IP
and communicates with ISERVERs running on your host machine.

Hosts supported include SUN, VAX/VMS and PC-DOS. It is pretty
easy to port the host software, so long as you have a BSD socket
library.

For those interested in going beyond the ISERVER, there is a 
transpter socket library which allows transputer applications
to use TCP/IP directly.

Elements of the B300, such as the IMS B018/IMS B431 hardware
and the software in ROM will be sold separately. 

..
IMS B300 goes on beta site testing in ten days time.

...End of advert...contact a sales office for more info.

David.
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