NSC HYPERchannel

Jeff R. Gottloeb gottloeb at trwrba.UUCP
Wed Sep 26 04:41:00 AEST 1984



>  From:  Creon Levit <creon at ames-nas-gw.arpa>

>  We run the HYPERchannel on our vax 780s under 4.2bsd.  The driver
>  (network interface) we use is an update of the 4.2 distribution that
>  was supplied by the original's author, Steve Glaser, at Tektronix.  I
>  have fixed it so that is allows "raw" access to the hyperchannel, in
>  addition to tcp/ip access.  We use it to talk between vaxes and to talk
>  to our crays.  I also have a pdp-11 hyperchannel driver ans a vax
>  system V hyperchannel driver.  I would not recommend hyperchannels
>  unless you absolutelt need to talk to machines that dont have ethernet
>  (i.e. Crays, CDC Cybers, IBMs, etc.)


CDC has announced a distributed front-end communications network supporting
terminals and gateways to other networks such as Ethernet.  Initial release
is scheduled for 2Q85 with subsequent releases at six month intervals.



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