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From: gmv@cblpf.ATT.COM (G. Michael Vrbanac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM Token Ring Network Question
Message-ID: <1098@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 88 20:04:57 GMT
References: <1192@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Columbus, Ohio
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> I currently work with a PS/2 Model 80 and Model 60 on an IBM token ring
> network.  I would like to add an AT&T 6300 to the network.  I already have
> a network card for it, and have installed and run the system diagnostics 
> supplied by IBM.  The hardware apparently checks out okay.  What I would like
> to know, is this.  What version of AT&T DOS do I need?  The IBM manuals say
> I need DOS 3.2 or higher, but they are talking about for the IBM.  I called 
> AT&T and they said "We don't support the IBM network, you'll have to talk
> to IBM."  So I called IBM and they said, "We don't support the AT&T 6300."

I've never run token-ring, but I can tell you that the AT&T PC6300 will
run IBMs PC-DOS (that I have done).  The only glitch I know of is getting
PC-DOS to know what time/date the 6300 has in it's clock.  There are several
programs to do this, check out the AT&T sponsored support BBS at
(201) 769-5616 or (201) 769-6397.   
One other thing that can be a "gotcha" with the 6300 is that they 8-bit
bus slots *don't* run at 4.77 mhz, rather the designers simply halved the
cpu clock's 8mhz to run the 8-bit bus.  Consequently, anything plugged in
an 8-bit bus slot runs slower, and a very few cards won't run at all.

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