RE: Linux, Digital Alpha, and ATM

[george@example.com]

Ted,

     Thanks for the info on Linux/Alpha/ATM. You sure know lots of
stuff. I'll study it carefully at my own pace. Thanks again.

Cheers,
George


On 27 Mar 96 16:48:00 EST
   Ted ( TMatsumu@example.com ) wrote:

>George, 
>  I'll do my best to answer a few of your questions.
>
>     1. What's the deal with Linux, Alpha, and ATM? Can you do some-
>        thing like video-on-demand stuff high-speed multimedia-
>        networking with Linux/Alpha/ATM (?) as the server? 
>
>Yes, you can do video-on-demand and high speed multimedia, quality of 
>service (guaranteed bandwidth for shared voice/video/data networks, and 
>classes of users), and by design, ATM is full duplex, switched, scalable 
>technology, all of which Ethernet is not.
>
>First I'll address the state of Linux and ATM as I know it:
>  There exists a Linux ATM API for the ENI NIC I believe, with an ATM Linux 
>mailing list and some web reference sites.  Fore has or had some API PVC 
>code available, other vendors have discussed opening up their API's but have 
>not yet.
>

< snip >

>Ted




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