Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!ron.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: TCP/IP for IBMs? Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 88 01:16:12 GMT References: <3210@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 The 4381 and the 9370 can both talk to the Token Ring with an 8232 which is not so hot, but it is what IBM has right now. The 8232 is a second generation of a DACU only this time rather than having something useful like a UNIBUS, it's an industrial channel attached IBM-PC. If you could deal with plugging the machines into Ethernet, BusTech makes a much cheaper and better performing channel attached Ethernet controller. The 9370 can also be attached to the network without the 8232 because there are integral lan interface cards available. The Series 3X (and the AS/400) are going to be more interesting. I don't think IBM has gotten that far in pushing TCP/IP. Mostly at the last SHARE IBM was tripping over themselves insisting that their support of TCP/IP and UNIX was not an indication that these would supplant SNA and SAA respectively. -Ron