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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: ACC X.25 Unibus card reviews sought
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 14:24:13 EDT
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> We need X.25 VC capability on our 4.2BSD VAXes, and have been considering
> ACC's "intelligent" X.25 cards.  Our gateway group has had some experience 
> with their LSI-11 X.25 interfaces, and they advised us to speak to some
> satisfied VAX customers before purchasing the board.  Anyone out there?
> My local ACC sales rep has been stonewalling me, a fact which doesn't bode
> well for the board.

The firmware on the old board was attrocious.  It wouldn't work well on
any machine requiring unibus mapping (read: larger than an 11/44).
ACC says they have new software that's supposed to have fixed this.
They never gave it to us, so I can't say if it is any better.

-Ron