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From: pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: DATAKIT (Tm) VCS - What does the net think?
Message-ID: <984@hlexa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Jan-84 13:57:51 EST
Article-I.D.: hlexa.984
Posted: Sat Jan 14 13:57:51 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jan-84 05:58:11 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ
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[The message below makes me wonder what the net community thinks about the
DATAKIT (*) VCS (Virtual Circuit Switch) - I haven't seen any comments
here yet.  The only public domain commentary I've seen was in an article
by Philip Reagan in the December, 1983 issue of *Data Communications*
titled "AT&T, IBM arming for local net war of '84".  However, that
article pre-dates the official announcement.]

ATTENTION AT&T EMPLOYEES (current and former) - DO NOT comment publicly
on this unless you know that your information has been approved for
public release!!!

(*) DATAKIT is a registered trademark of AT&T

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From: notes@hlexa.UUCP
Subject: MIXED REACTIONS TO DATAKIT - (nf)

AT&T NETWORKING SWITCH SNEAKS ONTO MARKET,
Information Systems News, Jan. 9, p. 21.
Reaction to AT&T's "quiet" introduction last
month of Datakit VCS has caused reactions
ranging from "enthusiatic to mystified."  Some
call the product, which can allow terminals and
computers of different protocols to communicate
over a private line network, "a significant
development," while others cannot make "heads or
tails" of it.  One analyst suspects that AT&T
will have future product announcements that will
expand on the Datakit's capabilities.