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From: markm@orca.UUCP (Mark Mehall)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: info on commercially available LANs
Message-ID: <1844@orca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 13:04:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 13:04:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:18:54 EST
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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> I am looking for information about commercially available LAN products, 
> including PCnetworks.  This is for a survey report on commercially available 
> LAN systems and how they map onto the various network standards proposed by the 
> various committees. If any body has any pointers to manufacturers/developers
> of LAN products or knows where I can get such information (e.g. a LAN
> manufacturers directory) I would be happy to know about it.
> Thanx.
> 
> Samar Marwaha
> 214 Smith Hall
> University of Delaware
> Newark DE 19716
> 
> marwaha@udel-dewey

Local Area Networks articles are very common in the press right now.  The
following is a list of recent ones:

	"LANS-still a no man's land", ELECTRONICS NEWS, Sep 2 1985, pp. 28-29
	"Standards... and the OSI Model", I&CS, April 1985, pp 49-54
	"Emerging Standards...$3B Market", MINI-MICRO SYSTEMS, Feb 15,1985,
	  pp. 59-97.  Includes tables of H/W & S/W suppliers.
	"Hands-on network-design...", EDN, Mar 22,1984 pp 219-232.
	  Discusses VLSI LAN chips.
	"Engineering Workstation Communications", VLSI DESIGN, Aug 1984, pp54-59
	"1984 Local Area Networks Chart", TODAY'S OFFICE, April 1984, pp. 66-76.

Also, DATAPRO Research Corp. in Delran, NJ has a section on Networks & 
Architectures in their DATAPRO Reports.

The  32-bit Tektronix 6130 workstation is one of the few computer products that
offers a LAN as a standard feature.  The 6130 conforms to the ISO/OSI model and
IEEE 802.3.  The transmissions are compatible with the Dept. of Defense 
protocols found in the ARPANET network (TCP/IP). Tektronix has also implemented
a Distributed File System which allows the location of a file (whether local 
or on another workstation) to be transparent to the application program.


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