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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.micro.hp
Subject: Re: Looking for TCP/IP for HP9000 running HP/UX
Message-ID: <1226@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 05:07:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 05:07:30 1986
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In article <171@gt-eedsp.UUCP>, deb@gt-eedsp.UUCP (Deb Jackson) writes:
> We've got 2 HP-9000's (300 series) running HP/UX, with ethernet.  
> The problem is that the HP's don't have TCP/IP, so we've got a
> real problem trying to get them to talk to our Vax running 4.2BSD(BRL).

The October 86 issue of the HP Journal just arrived here last week.
It's all about networking and HP's AdvanceNet architecture.  Turns
out that they *did* implement TCP/IP on the HP 3000 series, but the
HP 9000's have to suffer with HP proprietary protocols for file transfer
and remote file system access.  No standard protocols are provided,
except that if you really want to, you can read and write raw Ethernet
packets (gee thanks!).  You could probably cobble something together
to talk to your Vaxen this way.

Hard to believe that they did all the development to build TCP/IP on
the 3000's, but for Unix, where an implementation was available for free,
they didn't bother...
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
  Overheard at a funeral: "I know this may be an awkward time, but do
  you recall him ever mentioning source code?"		-- Charles Addams