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From: trw@hrc63.co.uk (Trevor Wright Marconi Baddow)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Cheap TCP/IP access to IBM/Amdahl's
Message-ID: <479@hrc63.co.uk>
Date: 21 Dec 87 11:38:51 GMT
Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, England.
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Keywords: TCP/IP, Amdahl, CMS, MVS


We are looking at options to connect our Ethernet network to an Amdahl
5860 operated by a sister company. We know of the Spartacus K200 running
with Wollongong WIN/UTS under UTS.

Is there however a cheaper, lower-but-acceptable performance alternative -
say a PC/AT with channel one side and Ether the other.

If so - what Amdahl s/w would be required if we were NOT working with
UTS. Resident systems on the Amdahl are VM/CMS and MVS.

Surely there must be a better way of talking to IBM's than serial RJE's,
but at a reasonable cost...

Thanks

Trevor Wright, GEC Research, Chelmsford UK
ArpaNet address: yc23%a.gec-mrc.co.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk