Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!att!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: TCP for the unix-pc
Message-ID: <7976@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 89 12:38:05 GMT
References: <1892@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <8187@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
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In article <8187@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1892@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> alex@wolf.umbc.edu.UUCP (Alex Crain) writes:
>>	[deleted]
>
>I don't know if you can still get the 1Mbit starlan boards for the 7300
>or not, but they would work nicely.  You can daisy-chain up to 10
>units without using a hub.  The main problem with them is that the
>available software is for URP (AT&T proprietary) protocol while the
>other AT&T machines are changing to OSI protocols so you can't mix
>7300's and 6386's on the same net.  Also, since you can't get SysVr3
>you can't run RFS, but if you want to roll your own software it might
>work out.

You should still be able to get starlan boards for the 7300.

Correction to your comments above: it is true that the other AT&T systems
are moving to ISO protocols, but they CAN share a wire with URP-based
systems; they just don't understand one another.

						Bob Halloran
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