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From: dcrocker@ubvax.UUCP (Dave Crocker)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Netbios and TCP/IP
Message-ID: <471@ubvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 10:47:11 EST
Article-I.D.: ubvax.471
Posted: Tue Apr 15 10:47:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 03:24:57 EST
References: <1186@isi-hobgoblin.ARPA>
Reply-To: dcrocker@ubvax.UUCP (Dave Crocker)
Organization: Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Santa Clara, Ca.
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In article <1186@isi-hobgoblin.ARPA> Dan Lynch writes:
>There now exists an implementation of the Netbios interface
>that runs on top of TCP/IP for the IBM PC family...

The world grows ever richer with choice:

Ungermann-Bass has an Intel 80186-based intelligent card, for the
PC, which provides TCP/IP and Netbios, simultaneously.  It can perform
the sort of FTP-to-shared-remote-disk (say that quickly, 5 times) trick
that Dan describes.  The Netbios interface is faithful to the IBM
specification AND will permit partial use of DDN domain names.  Making
this work turns out to be something of a game, since IBM limits names to
16 characters.

To avoid complaints of inappropriate use of the medium for sales purposes,
I will cut short this exposition, except to note that the card's
performance is superb and the user also has access to data link, IP,
and UDP interfaces.
Dave