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Re: ibm's CLUSTER network - any info ?

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From: Erick Engelke
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:33
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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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