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In article <28SEP199222223884@nereid.sunquest.com>, spg@nereid.sunquest.com (Steve Gibbons) writes:
>From: spg@nereid.sunquest.com (Steve Gibbons)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
>Subject: Re: Still looking for DECnet objects for 'Bow + MSDOS + DECnet
>Date: 29 Sep 92 05:22:00 GMT
>
>In article <Bv7420.7xn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes...
>#In article <23SEP199201281456@nereid.sunquest.com> spg@nereid.sunquest.com (Steve Gibbons) writes:
>
>#>So, a while back I asked about the availability of _other_ DECnet objects for
>#>my various Rainbow systems.  
>
>#What networking options were/are available for the Rainbow?  It would appear
>#from the post that Rainbows _can_ be connected to a DECnet, so, more 
>#specifically, is there any hardware/software which would allow me to connect 
>#a Rainbow directly to a TCP/IP network? (e.g. thin cable ethernet card, etc.).

	Digital never produced an Ethernet card for the Rainbow.  We
evaluated a 3rd party card by an outfit called Univation, but never supported
it.  Since there wasn't any vacant option spaces left, the card was designed
to sandwich under the disk controller AND tap into the FP coprocessor option.
Unfortunately this vastly overloaded the power supply (a marginal design to
be begin with) and it was not unusual for a burst of transmissions to cause
the Rainbow to crash.  There were other problems as well.

	There was a Corvus Omninet card for the Rainbow.

>TCP/IPwise, I know of nothing for the 'Bow.  (Anyone up to the "excercise" of
>porting KA9Q? :-)
>
>#What is DECnet-DOS?  Where can one get it?  Would this allow one to "connect"
>#several Rainbows in a LAN if each Rainbow were running it?
>
>DECnet-DOS was a pre-cursor to Pathworks for DOS.  I've only tested it with 
>RS232 connections, since I haven't been able to scrounge up an ethernet card
>for the Rainbow (yet.)  One thing to consider (if you can obtain the software)
>is that it's only an end-node license, you'll need to have a router in the
>works somewhere, unless your net only consists of two end-nodes.
>
>Version 1.1 is/was _very basic_ in the clients/servers that were provided.

	I think, Version 1.2 was the last version of DECnet-Rainbow released.
It provided all of the standard DECnet peer-to-peer utilities still in
PATHWORKS for DOS today (including DECnet sockets).

LAN Manager based client/server file services were introduced when the VAXmate
arrived, with DECnet-DOS V2.1 and (then called) VMS Services for DOS.

	Dave Mitton
	DECnet-DOS V1.0 Designer and Project Leader