Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!CLARKU.BITNET!DHASKIN From: DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET (Denis W. Haskin, Manager, Technical Services) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: TCP/IP ETHERNET DECNET VAX Message-ID: <8705311951.AA03543@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 31-May-87 13:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8705311951.AA03543 Posted: Sun May 31 13:19:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 02:24:31 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 32 >Date: 29 May 87 16:53:08 GMT >From: Edward J Cetron >Subject: Re: TCP/IP ETHERNET DECNET VAX >In article <2033@a.cs.okstate.edu> keith@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Lovelace) > writes: >[...] >>ETC. Knowing that the 8350 is a BI bus machine, and that it comes >>configured with one BI to Ethernet adapter, does DEC sell this adapter as a >>seperate device? I have only been able to find Unibus or Q-bus adapter >it is call a DEBNT and is the slowest ethernet board DEC makes (on the >fastest bus the dec makes :-) )....anyway I understand that the delua on a >bi->unibus adapter is faster (though more expensive) explore with you sales >person re: the DEBNT II.... Any more info on the 'slowness' of DEBNT? I hadn't heard of this and it bothers me... >(by the way, another pathway is to get tcp/ip for vms for an educational >institution it is VERY cheap and I DO NOT MEAN wollongong...) We are an educational institution... can you elaborate? % Denis W. Haskin Manager, Technical Services % % ----------------------------------------------------------------------- % % DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET Office of Information Systems (617)793-7193 % % Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester MA 01610 % % % % "Anyone who _moves_ before Most Holy comes back out will spend the rest % % of eternity sipping lava through an iron straw." - Cerebus %