Re: Macintosh client and SPX/IPX

From: Sonia Lyris <sol_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 19:45:30 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Feb4.194530.25411_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com>

I am posting this for Thomas Cox. Please reply to him directly rather than to me. Thanks.

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From:     Thomas Cox  <WRPYR:tcox>
To:       meggers_at_darwin.helios.nd.edu 

Subject: Re: Macintosh client and SPX/IPX Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle

In article <1992Jan31.211101.16035_at_news.nd.edu> you write:
>Someone in our organization indicated that SQL*Net client for the
>Macintosh can run on top of SPX/IP[X] to an OS/2 server.

        Wrong.

>I was under the
>impression that the Macintosh would only speak AppleTalk or TCP/IP,
>and that to use an OS/2 server, TCP/IP would be the preferred protocol.

        Right. Also DECnet, 3270, and Async from the Mac. No SPX/IPX.

>Would someone on the net clear this up for me? Running IPX/SPX on
>a Macintosh would be a first . . . . .

	That's true, particularly because there is no implementation of
	SPX/IPX available for the Mac from any source.  So of course 
	Oracle has not bothered to write a SQL*Net for a protocol that
	doesn't exist.

>please post your response, since my email account is not particularly
>stable.

        Oh, and of course all bets are off whenever SQL*Net v2.0 shows up.

>Thanks - /mde/
 

>Mark Eggers, WDI

        Cheers.

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Tom Cox, Senior Training Specialist, Oracle Corporation
503-220-1678    		  (Portland, OR office)
tcox_at_oracle.com      Oracle:  Client/Server since 1985.

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