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From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki)
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Subject: TCP/IP for VMS
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 14:15:18 EST
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Yes, I know about Wollongong's TCP/IP and that it is being offered by
DEC (for lots more money than Wollongong, buy it directly from TWG).
The problem is that it is slow and inefficient, especially if one is
going to have a single VMS machine act as a gateway for TCP/IP. This
is especially true if you consider the DELUA.

The DELUA is DEC's smart ethernet board. It has a cpu (68000) and a
fair amount of memory. Initial release of this board (and software)
will allow it to emulate a DEUNA, but later releases will put a good
deal of the network code down in the board. This means that most of
the work will be done in the DELUA.

From what I could learn, DEC is going to put DECNET (and probably
802.3) down into the DELUA, but not TCP/IP. Does TWG plan on doing
this?

		Marty Sasaki