chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason) writes: > In fact, for a reason having everything to do with "marketing" and > nothing whatsoever technical, VTAM does *not* implement LEN protocols > over the "type 2.1 CTC", only APPN protocols.
aka ... at the time APPN was to be announced ... the communication group objected ... in part because it actually supported networking (at the time, the person that was responsible for APPN, originally documented in AWP164, and I reported to the same executive ... I would periodically chide him about stop playing around and come work on "real" networking"). after a month or two of escalation ... the APPN announcement letter was carefully rewritten to avoid implying any sort of relationship between APPN and SNA. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN