Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!ucbvax!ACC.ARPA!lars From: lars@ACC.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: UNIBUS ==> IBM Channel Interface Message-ID: <8606251016.AA10751@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 12:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8606251016.AA10751 Posted: Tue Jun 24 12:42:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Jun-86 00:06:46 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 40 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 86 22:05:48 EDT > From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) > To: info-vax@sri-kl.ARPA > Subject: Re: UNIBUS ==> IBM Channel Interface > > > I would be interested in hearing from anyone who know of an > > UNIBUS to IBM Channel interface for either VMS or BSD UNIX. > > IBM makes a box called a DACU ... > ... > Years ago I believe DEC made such a beast called a DX11-?? > ... > If you're just after data transfer (is the UNIBUS part of the > VAX and the Channel part of the IBM system? Are you trying to > plug an RA81 into an IBM system? Are you trying to plug a 3380 > into a VAX?) you might consider WiscNet. (This isn't as strange > ... > -Barry Shein, Boston University The DACU is a way to put UNIBUS peripherals on an IBM. There are also ways to do the opposite (ACC did one of those to interface an IBM type printer to a VAX). There are also interfaces (such as the DX-11 which is now obsolete but it has been replaced with a KMC-11 based thing) to interface CPU-to-CPU. All of these require perverted software to do something useful, so I agree with Barry's suggestion, that if you need networking, look for a turnkey solution designed with that in mind. In this community, I guess you could suggest putting TCP/IP on both machines; in a different context, the solution might be to put the IBM on DECnet (yes, there are even turnkey packages to do that !!). As for TCP-IP, I'm sure you all know ten ways to connect a VAX; there are at least 4 ways to connect an IBM system; I suggest you get connected to IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM for more discussion. / Lars Poulsen Advanced Computer Communications ------