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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

1900.0. "FDDI-EISA on Olivetti LSX 5040 ?" by BERN02::DEY (Walter Dey, MCS NS, Berne Switzerland) Tue Dec 12 1995 14:29

I have a customer with about 35 Olivetti servers (LSX 5040) with FDDI-EISA
boards from DEC:

The hardware is multiprocessor Intel 486/EISA
Software is AT&T system V R4

The kernel says: FDDI/EISA V1.0.0.c	(DEC3001 ??)

They have incredible problems doing e.g ftp, or Netbios over TCP: after
transfering e.g. 40 MB, the pipe gets broken.. 

Doing the same stuff over enet works fine, therefore they claim it is our 
problem.

q: Do we officially support this plattform ?

q: and if yes, what is the latest firmware / software (drivers)

Walter.
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1900.1No. Olivetti UNIX is *not* supportedNETCAD::STEFANIMachines to humanizeWed Dec 13 1995 14:127
    We do not officially support this platform or operating system.  A long
    time ago Digital did some driver work for Olivetti for the original
    DEFEA with the understanding that they would be responsible for
    supporting and maintaining the code.
    
    - Larry
1900.2AT&T Unix and the DEFPA?SNOFS1::KHOOJEANNIEHumpty Dumpty was pushedTue Mar 05 1996 02:1112
    Hi Larry,
    
    A customer here is interested in purchasing a large number of DEFPAs,
    but unfortunately his standard operating system is AT&T System V.
    
    As I understand from .1, AT&T Unix is not officially supported on the
    DEFEAs - does this apply to the DEFPAs also?
    
    Any workarounds you can suggest? [ so we don't lose the sale :-) ]
    
    Thanks,                 
    Jeannie
1900.3What *IS* AT&T SVR4 anymore?NETCAD::STEFANII *CAN* drive 65!Tue Mar 05 1996 16:4436
    >>A customer here is interested in purchasing a large number of DEFPAs,
    >>but unfortunately his standard operating system is AT&T System V.
    
    AT&T System V is pretty meaningless to me at this point.  UNIX System
    Laboratories was sold by AT&T to Novell, was disolved in wake of the
    AT&T/Novell Univel effort, became UnixWare, then was sold off to SCO
    late last year.
    
    At this point, I'm aware of AT&T MP RAS, which is supported by NCR
    (formerly, AT&T GIS) on NCR machines.  I'm not familiar with any
    commercial "AT&T SVR4 UNIX" operating system, hence, we don't have any
    support for it on any adapter.
    
    Last I had heard, both Olivetti and SNI had their own "flavors" of SVR4
    UNIX, but had started to migrate to UnixWare.  Now that UnixWare is
    under SCO's domain, the lines are blurred and I don't know what's left
    in the "pure" Unix space other than:
    
    	SCO UnixWare
    	SCO OpenServer
    	Digital UNIX
    	HP HP-UX
    	Sun Solaris
    	IBM AIX
    	NCR MP RAS
    	Linux
    	FreeBSD
    
    There would have to be a significant business justification to warrant
    supporting yet another custom UNIX implementation.  As it is, we're
    targetting the commercial operating systems that have significant
    market share or can provide us with visibility in non-Digital markets.
    We're also agressively pursuing the OEM market in which third-parties
    port our drivers to their custom OS's, then maintain them.
    
    - Larry