Decnet, VMS <==> Ultrix connection questions

[Tony Burzio]

In article <22545 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, rob at violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
> >There should be a way to add new terminal support to VMS.
> there is.  you have to specify your terminals though in assembler,

Yuch!

> The CMU/TEK package is at best lukewarm.  From what I've seen it's
> pretty slow on a 750.  With the Excelan product, they have alot of the
> upper level protocols on the board so it tends to go somewhat faster....

Until you get to high baud rates.  At 38.6K baud, the Excelan board
slows to an effective 300 baud.  No fix from Excelan available.

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