Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!gottloeb From: gottloeb@trwrba.UUCP (Jeff R. Gottloeb) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: NSC HYPERchannel Message-ID: <978@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 14:41:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trwrba.978 Posted: Tue Sep 25 14:41:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:32:05 EDT References: <12338@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 19 > From: Creon Levit> We run the HYPERchannel on our vax 780s under 4.2bsd. The driver > (network interface) we use is an update of the 4.2 distribution that > was supplied by the original's author, Steve Glaser, at Tektronix. I > have fixed it so that is allows "raw" access to the hyperchannel, in > addition to tcp/ip access. We use it to talk between vaxes and to talk > to our crays. I also have a pdp-11 hyperchannel driver ans a vax > system V hyperchannel driver. I would not recommend hyperchannels > unless you absolutelt need to talk to machines that dont have ethernet > (i.e. Crays, CDC Cybers, IBMs, etc.) CDC has announced a distributed front-end communications network supporting terminals and gateways to other networks such as Ethernet. Initial release is scheduled for 2Q85 with subsequent releases at six month intervals.