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From: gray@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: MAC compatibles and UNIX
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 23:18:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 21 23:18:00 1984
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/* Written  6:10 pm  Dec  7, 1984 by schoff@cadtroy in uiucdcs:net.micro.mac */

> What good is an ethernet with no software to use it??  That's why all of
> the UN*X machines on campus here run 4.2BSD with TCP/IP networking rather
> than Sys V.  I wouldn't consider a box like that in a University environment
> unless it had a *real* ability to do high-speed networking to the rest of
> the computers here on campus, and that means 4.2BSD right now.
> 
> Other than that, I sounds great;  I'd love to have something like that on my
> desk.
> 

Sorry.  There is software with the ethernet:

	1.  How do you think we support the diskless node?
	2.  There is a fully transparent distributed file system which runs
		across this ethernet which uses IP as its
		network layer, it also does ARP, and it is benchmarked
		at 1.5Mbits now, I believe tunable to 2.5Mbits.
	3.  TCP/IP for those of you into that, though I wouldn't consider
		that very high speed if you have been following some
		of the benchmark data submitted lately.
		(Excelan's 186 board with their rev 3.1 software does
		500kbits)

There are a number of people working on tcp/ip for SysV.  Excelan has
a Unibus board for the VAX.  TWG has some software for the VAX.  And
then there is always ATT's which someday may get released.

marty

{wivax,seismo,bbncca}!cadmus!schoff
schoff@cadmusv.ARPA
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