[Info-vax] DSW41/42 option

[John Wallace]

On Oct 12, 6:46 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Volker Halle wrote:
> > A DSW41/42 is a SYNCHRONOUS WAN device. You can't configure this
> > device with standard OpenVMS drivers, you need to install the VAX WAN
> > Device Drivers kit.
>
> > Volker.
>
> And, what are you supposed to actualy *do* with it ?

You can talk DECnet (specifically, DDCMP iirc) to a compatible DECnet
box, or X.25 to the outside world, typically.

Traditionally, if you got one, you knew what it was going to be used
for.

Were these things supported for IBM interconnect or was IBM stuff a
different kind of synchronous?