Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!mcf!shan
From: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Networking an HP3000 (MPE) and a VAX-11/750 running 4.3BSD
Message-ID: <209@mcf.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 13:01:18 GMT
References: <208@mcf.UUCP> <1340016@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Reply-To: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani)
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: michigan cancer foundation, detroit mi 48201 (313) 833-0710
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Keywords: TCP/IP, TWG, WIN

In article <1340016@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.UUCP writes:
>There is a company called "The Wollongong Group" which has done a (full?)
>implementation of TCP/IP on the HP3000's. Contact them for details.

Somebody else at HP Inf.Net.Divn. pointed out them to me. I have since
contacted them and the status is as that the product WIN/3000 will be
available end of May, currently they are doing training and documentation
and all that fun stuff. I am now consolidating all the info I got, eg
what are the components needed on the 3000 side and any hidden gotchas,
bridges necessary, etc. I am also waiting for prices and some more literature,
so anybody if interested, send me reminder (maybe two as I am always
deluged with work and it may just escape me..) and I'll forward anything
new that pops up since this time of writing.

There are a couple of small points to remember, but I'm sure HP will
smoothen them out in the future. Currently there are not plans to port
them product to the new Spectrum series (950, 930, etc.) but I'm sure
that will happen someday. By that I mean "native" mode, it will run
in emulation mode I'm told. Also if you do upgrade from the older
44, 70 series to the new ones you will have to change a few pieces of
hardware on the network-computer interface side. By the way, the marketing
types may not know all of this (yet), so be patient with them ;-).

Thanks to all those who helped!
-- 
sharan kalwani, vax facility, mcf, 110 east warren avenue, detroit mi 48201
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