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From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Any body know networks supported for sysV 3.0
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 05:07:53 EDT
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>> Granted, all of the STREAMS, RFS support and all, but, is ATT delivering any 
>> Transport-layer network support (i.e. ethernet, starlan, token-ring, etc...) 
>> in the 3.0 release of sysV?  I gather no!
>
>I am 99 44/100 percent sure that the 3B2 SVR3 will support ethernet in the
>form of 3bnet.

Then you are 99 44/100 percent wrong. :-)

AT&T has been quite clear that the only physical network they will support
(initially) in SVR3 is Starlan. No Ethernet, and no TCP/IP. As you can well
imagine, this created quite a stew at the SVR3 product seminar. AT&T is
expecting a "cottage" industry to arise to develop and market Streams-based
protocol modules: TCP/IP, Token Ring, and what have you. Down the road, AT&T
may buy some of the modules, or develop their own. 

AT&T has stated that an as-yet-unnamed ISV will announce the availability of
TCP/IP protocol modules Real Soon Now.

3bnet is going away completely as of SVR3, last I heard.

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