Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!psuvax1!dae From: dae@psuvax1.UUCP (Daemon) Newsgroups: net.mail,net.wanted.sources,net.unix Subject: Re: Bitnet gateway software? Message-ID: <1691@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 08:59:37 EDT Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1691 Posted: Wed Aug 21 08:59:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:50:46 EDT References: <861@gatech.CSNET> <1613@watdcsu.UUCP> <106@pyrnj.uucp> Reply-To: dae@psuvax1.UUCP (Dave Eckhardt) Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.mail:1068 net.wanted.sources:1207 net.unix:5438 Summary: Nothing worse than a half-truth...(or two) In article <106@pyrnj.uucp> romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) writes: >In article <1613@watdcsu.UUCP>, dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) writes: >> My guess is that the authors of UREP are no longer at PSU and that >> nobody at PSU wants to maintain UREP. > >I've heard rumors that the author of UREP, Robert M. Owens, >left PSU some time back and is now somewhere at the University of >Maryland. Dr. Owens *was* on a one-year leave at Maryland. He has been back for more than a month. You're half right. >I also know someone who talked to Dave Eckhart at Penn State >last spring; he reports that PSU is moving towards Ethernet. The >implication was that they would cease using UREP. Sombody's confused here. We now have (and will very soon offer) a UREP link driver that works over an ethernet (more generally, udp/ip). This is how node psuvaxs is on bitnet. Instead of moving away from UREP, many people are much more interested in it with this capability. Again, I see the grain of truth there, but your conclusion is diametrically opposed to reality. >In the way of Ethernet, Spartacus (1-800-LAN-KNET) claims to be >able to provide all the functionality necessary to get you between >Unix and VM. I guess you would still need your VM to talk to BITNET. I have no information on their product and I can't even speculate on relative merits or prices without turning this into an advertisement. Has anybody out there had experience with Spartacus they'd like to make public? >--Romain Kang, Pyramid Technology Corporation --Daemon (Dave Eckhardt @ Penn State)