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From: depaolo@noscvax.UUCP (Anthony D. dePaolo)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Need LAN to support Standard Military NTDS computers
Message-ID: <1047@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 12:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 12:52:08 1985
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Working for the DoD, we are frequently required to develop systems on standard
miltary hardware, such as the UYK-7, UYK-20, UYK-43, and UYK-44 computers from
Sperry.  I need to know if any work has been done for interfacing these types 
of computers to a commercial LAN (Ethernet, etc.) using NTDS interfaces.  NTDS
is Navy Tactical Data System, and the types of interfaces include NTDS Slow,
NTDS Fast, and ANEW.  I would think a network interface processor would have
to do the conversion from NTDS - Ethernet (or whateverNet).  Do these processors
exist?

Currently I have only heard of one effort for an NTDS computer fiber-optic ring,
which is very application specific.  Are there any others?

		Swimming in point-to-point spaghetti,
		    Tony de Paolo
		    Naval Ocean System Center
		    Code 723

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