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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ethernet - RS-232 or modem multiplexers?
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Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 03:33:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 03:33:24 1986
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In article <189@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
>-- DEC has recently announced the terminal servier 200 which, unlike the
>100, is reputed to be of use with other than DEC hosts.  It's still a
>little pricey, but I'd like to hear how it works and how you talk to it.

As I understand it, the DEC server 200 speaks only LAT, a proprietary
protocol which DEC refuses to release to anybody. I think Henry
Spencer has some comments on that attitude. The major "innovation" in
the DEC server 200 is that it has reverse LAT, which means you can
implement milking machines with it. For example, you could put some
modems on a DEC server 200 and connect to them over Ethernet from
another DEC server (100 or 200). Or you could probably do a SET/HOST
from a VMS machine. But you can't do what you want, which is connect
to the modems from a PC on Ethernet.

Would you like DEC to support TCP/IP? Call your salesman and let him
know. (please!)
-- 
 Rain follows the plow.

 Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
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