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From: joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: IBM Ethernet/Channel Connect
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 14:06:13 EST
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IBM sells a device called a 7170, aka DACU (Device Attachment Control
Unit), which is a channel interface on one side, and a 4-slot UNIBUS
backplane on the other side connected by a large amount of fast memory,
controlled by a PC(!).  Anyway, this device lets you plug your favorite
UNIBUS device into your favorite 370 channel.  IBM also sells WISCNET,
the UofWisconsin TCP/IP for VM/SP.  WISCNET will run TCP/IP over X.25
networks through a Series/1, or on LANs using either ProNet or Ethernet
hardware.  We have an Interlan NI1010A controller on the DACU and have
little problem communicating between the IBM and VAXen and SUNs on the
Ethernet.

/Joe