well, the joke used to go, 'the best way to get two IBM's to talk to each 
other is to put a VAX between them' ... :)

happy hacking,
isildur

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
> It is basically a dedicated SNA Gateway node.
> It should be a variant of a KA650/KA655
> based node which loads whatever SNA
> software it needs. It has a special interface
> to talk directly to some sort of IBM channel.
> I've seen one once and it looked quite snazzy
> at the time.
> 
> It's a higher speed version of the DEMSA
> running the SNA Gateway code.
> 
> Antonio
>