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From: cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X and OSI/ISO
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.035126.27569@netcom.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 03:51:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.214558.22023@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Netcom - Somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area
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In article <1991Apr16.214558.22023@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ral@hydra.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Roger Lighty) writes:
>I understand that the OSI set of protocols do not make a standard.
>(I.E. There are several OSI products which meet the protocol but
>can't talk to each other).  If you know of X on top of OSI products
>What s/w or h/w do they run on? and not run on? or sometimes?
>
>I don't know the level of response I will get.  Please mail to me
>and I will summarize the input and post on comp.x.windows on 30 April '91.
>
>Roger			ral@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov
>
>(If you prefer to post, I will be looking in comp.x.windows and include in summary)

Dear Roger,

  Sad, but true.  The closest thing I have found to an OSI standard that
has proven interoperability is the TP4 (TOP/NetBIOS) standard.  I saw a
net where over seven vendors used that as a means of transporting LAN
Manager traffic.  One of the vendors was AT&T, who is missing from the
CP1 bandwagon (but secretly has it).  AT&T has a line of X-terms, from
mono 1Kx1K resolution to higher res and 256 colors.  Each of the models
has the option of being supported by IP or OSI.  They are the only vendor
that *I* know of who has an OSI-like XTerm.  I would suppose any other
vendor who uses UNIX and TP4 would have the Streams-ability to support
X11 in a similar manner, but I haven't seen any others out there except
those who relicense AT&T's LAN Manager, AT&T's OSI Transport...but those
vendors include NCR, Data General (hot new box, eh?), Olivetti, Unisys,
and about 4 other European companies.  I did hear recently that SCo
is coming out with LAN Manager for UNIX and will be supporting TP4 as
well.

Good Hunting...!

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