Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!leres From: leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: TWG questions Message-ID: <19872@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 19:43:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19872 Posted: Sun Jul 26 19:43:07 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jul-87 00:36:18 EDT References: <8707221558.AA24214@topaz.rutgers.edu> <5680@ut-ngp.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: leres@lbl-rtsg.arpa (Craig Leres) Lines: 12 Dbridge exists because we wanted internet access from VMS system that only had a point to point interface which DECnet already had its claws in. But there were other VMS machines on our DECnet that did have internet access so we devised a way to take advantage of them. We knew from the start that dbridge would never be a speed demon; not only is the overhead for DECnet too great, but it generates lots of system calls and process context switches. Of course, the minute we got money to buy a DEUNA, we started running elink. But dbridge served us well until that happened. Craig