Re: CF links and non-IBM machines (historical)

2023-03-19 Thread P H
:34:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CF links and non-IBM machines (historical) I'm aware it is quite obsolete topic. Q: was it possible to connect Amdahl or Hitachi machines with IBM CPC using sysplex links? Did they use the same hardware and protocol? BTW: I found the followin

Re: CF links and non-IBM machines (historical)

2023-03-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >Q: was it possible to connect Amdahl or Hitachi machines with >IBM CPC using sysplex links? >Did they use the same hardware and protocol? It seems so. Bitsavers.org preserved these Amdahl brochures: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/amdahl/brochures/AmdahlMillenniumCoupling50

Re: CF links and non-IBM machines (historical)

2023-03-19 Thread Art Gutowski
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:34:48 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >I'm aware it is quite obsolete topic. >Q: was it possible to connect Amdahl or Hitachi machines with IBM CPC >using sysplex links? >Did they use the same hardware and protocol? > >BTW: I found the following Hitachi CF link description

CF links and non-IBM machines (historical)

2023-03-19 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
I'm aware it is quite obsolete topic. Q: was it possible to connect Amdahl or Hitachi machines with IBM CPC using sysplex links? Did they use the same hardware and protocol? BTW: I found the following Hitachi CF link descriptions: ISCH2, ICF, ISB, ICC. Any of them is similar to IBM links (I kn