DECnet Ultrix/TCP

[Dan Ehrlich]

In article <176200003 at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> falk at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>Can anyone tell me how DecNet Ultrix and the VMS TCP/IP software perform?
>
>>Greg Corson
>
>VMS TCP/IP?? I wasn't aware that they supported it- in fact, members of my
>department have been invited to a "non-disclosure" meeting with DEC at which
>they allegedly will be told that DEC is *planning* to support tcp/ip at
>some (near) future time   (but don't tell anybody I told you this, OK? I
>found out by a note slipped under my door by a strange woman with a tan
>trench coat and dark glasses and a hat pulled down over her eyes :-))
>
>         Connie Falk
>
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DEC does resell the Wollongong implementation of TCP/IP for those wealthy VMS
users who can afford it.  I do not have any experience with this package
as my previous employers decided the price was a bit steep, (if my memory is
correct ~25K per cpu), and went for the Exelan hardware/software instead.


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