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From: jason@hpcnoe.UUCP (Jason Zions)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Looking for TCP/IP for HP9000 running HP/UX (FOLLOWUP)
Message-ID: <980002@hpcnoe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 15:48:34 EST
Article-I.D.: hpcnoe.980002
Posted: Mon Oct 27 15:48:34 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Oct-86 21:26:10 EST
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gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) /  3:07 am  Oct 24, 1986 /
> 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.
> 

HP released full ARPA/Berkeley services for the HP 9000 Series 300 computers
(310 and 320). This includes all the standard services (ftp, telnet, rlogin,
rcp, etc.) as well as a DDN standard TCP/IP.

The product was released in August. It's a shame the lead time on the
HP Journal is so lengthy.

We don't like gaps in our product line any more than you do.

> 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...

Quality-wise, you get what you pay for. The HP product has the traditional
HP quality. You don't get that with the "free" implementations...
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