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- From: eengelke@sail.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: ibm's CLUSTER network - any info ?
- Message-ID: <BxB23n.CtM@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <peterd.720945581@tscc2>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:33:21 GMT
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- In article <peterd.720945581@tscc2> peterd@tscc2.macarthur.uws.edu.au () writes:
- >I know I ask this question every couple of months (And the silence is deafening)
- >BUT - Does anyone out there remember IBM's cluster network, and if so, do they
- >have any technical/programming type information about it ?
- >
- >This network was developed before IBM's `Original' PC Network adapter.
- >As far as I can make out - It's a 256Kbs bus network, 75Ohm coax, a type
- >of slow ethernet ???
- >
- >Due to budgetry constraints, the 50 terminals I have on this network have to
- >survive just that bit longer. (Oh for a Packet Driver for the cluster card !)
- >
-
- If you have a NETBIOS for it, use the Packet Driver over Netbios program
- I think it's in the regular CRYNWR collection, or probably nelson@crynwr.com
- could help if it isn't
-
- Erick
-
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- Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo TCP Architect erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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