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In article <1992Sep29.211132.24273@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, mitton@dave.enet.dec.com (Dave Mitton) writes...
#In article <28SEP199222223884@nereid.sunquest.com>, spg@nereid.sunquest.com (Steve Gibbons) writes:
#>In article <Bv7420.7xn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes...
#>#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.

Was there an overload situation on a diskless workstation?  or only when a
hard-drive was installed?

#	There was a Corvus Omninet card for the Rainbow.

More, tell us more...

#>#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.

So, where can one obtain V1.2 of DECnet/DOS for the 'Bow?  ...and where can one
obtain the "programmers' kit?"  Has DEC decided that the Rainbow is "dead"
enough (from a marketing POF) to release this stuff to the PD, yet?

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Steve (SPG6) spg@sunquest.com