Re: PC connection via twinax ?

I take it you haven't been in many 400 installations, so that will
answer the question about why somebody is using twinax. Twinax remains
a large part of MANY installations and as such, will require that you
learn how to deal with it. The connection over twinax is fairly simple
and can be handled by any number of emulation cards. IBM sells a 
PCI Express card that runs tcp/ip over twinax or somebody like Bosa Nova
has vanilla cards with emulation. What has "paying for a proper job" got
to do with the installing a emulation card ??

Just being curious, but how do you "normally" attach a pc to a 400 ???



Jeff Bull wrote:
> 
> I have had a strange(?) request from a user who "... would like to connect a
> PC to an AS/400 model 9401 via a Twinax connection".  It sounds to me like
> someone is trying to avoid paying for a proper job.
> 
> I don't suppose anyone has come across such a connection?  My initial
> thought is that a twinax adaptor for the PC and some simple 5250 eml
> software might be possible.  "Why?" is another matter.
>