Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ATHOS.RUTGERS.EDU!hedrick From: hedrick@ATHOS.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: SUNLINK Users ?? Message-ID: <8805181218.AA01896@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 18 May 88 07:28:52 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Charles Hedrick Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 We had some problems with the channel-attached version of the Sunlink 3270. We were using an AS9000, which is alleged to be IBM-compatible. Apparently there are slight differences in the channels, and Sun's channel attachment uses features in a slightly unusual way. So if you are considering this product, and you aren't using a box actually made by IBM, make sure that your arrangement with Sun allows for the possibility that there might be problems. From what we could tell, the product seemed reasonable, but I'm not doing the evaluation, so I'm not the best person to speak on that. We are also evaluating a box from Mitek (?). It has similar features, and is also available either channel-attached or for synchronous lines. However it is a self-contained box, not a board that goes in your Sun.