[HECnet] FDDI advice

[Cory Smelosky]

yOn Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 10/10/2013 01:42 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 10/10/2013 01:36 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
While we're on FDDI... I have an FDDI NIC free to a good home.   It's
a DEFPA-DA -- dual attached fiber, PCI (5V 32 bit).   I have no way to
test it, but the person who gave it to me believed it to be
operational.   No drivers or any other software.

First response gets it (email with shipping info direct to me,
please).

FYI, this card is supported by most major OSs.   There are even drivers
for it for MacOS 9.

Now that's just plain weird.   Can OS 9's stacks even handle FE? ;)

Barely.   OpenTransport is, at least, a whole lot better than MacTCP.


Didn't bits of OpenTransport support STREAMS, too?   Or am I thinking of
something else?

Hmm, I don't know offhand.

                  -Dave



Every time I mention STREAMS someone always jokes that nobody uses it. ;)

I once said: "I have a challenge most modern CompSci students probably can't solve: make a web server without using pipes, sockets, STREAMS, or fifos"

Along with some people answering with good answers, they'd also say "Nobody uses STREAMS, dude"

(Correct answer: open a file, write to a file, close the file, write a client to open the file periodically.   Other answers: /dev/shm, writing to VGA memory directly, using serial lines, rsync to remote system)

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