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From: jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Recommendations requested for VMS <-> PC LAN
Message-ID: <2006@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 17-May-86 16:01:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2006
Posted: Sat May 17 16:01:14 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 19-May-86 01:22:27 EDT
References: <304@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: VMS, PC, Simple-minded LAN

In article <304@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> elias@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (elias) writes:
>...i've been asked by a friend to recommend a means of connecting
>a VAX 750 running VMS to upwards of 10 - 15 PC/AT's running MS-DOS.
>No virtual-terminal facilities are required, just (it seems) simply
>using the 750 as a remote file-server.  The machines will be physically
>separated by about 300 yds.  A simplified, probably menu-based user-
>interface will be layered on top of whatever is used.
>

Hmm.  Our nameserver can't seem to resolve your hostname...

Anyway, The following is quoted from Digital sales literature.
Contact your friendly DEC salesman for more information.

"DECnet-DOS now lets selected IBM personal computers participate as
nonrouting (end) nodes in DECnet computer networks.[...]

"DECnet-DOS offers task-to-task communications, remote file access,
utilities for network file operations, network command terminal
support, and network resource sharing using the Digital Network
Architecture (DNA) protocols.[...]"

The price is $500 for a single-system license.

Jeff Siegal