SPARC/IBM connectivity

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From: Simon Brown
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1991 16:50

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Does anyone have any knowledge which may help me to build a system to
transfer data at high speed (1.5 Mbytes/sec and above) between a 
SPARCstation (which has an sbus and a scsi) and an IBM mainframe (3090),
ES9000.

There appear to be a number of options.

    SNA token ring ?

    Channel ?

    Escon ?

    FDDI ?

    Hyperchannel ?

Anything that might help would be appreciated - company names, publications,
etc. I anticipate that driver software is likely to be the trickiest and
potentially most time-consuming engineering problem.

[Apologies if this article turns out to get posted twice]

Thanks in advance.

		--Simon Brown

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