Alan AMBERS wrote:
>
> hp3000-l readers....
>
> As we move more and more into Internet access for the general public, we
> are going to take a serious look at the Speedware Autobahn product.
>
> 1) I am wondering who out there is using it and if they are close enough
> to us (we are near Washington DC) if they would let us come and see it in
> action.  Also of course, I would welcome comments from anyone.
>
> 2) I understand that Autobahn requires DCE (Distributed Computing
> Environment) on both the HP9000 and HP3000.  I understand that the HP9000
> part is not hard to get (no idea of cost), I have no idea on where to
> start on the HP3000 (except HP of course).  But I find this forum much
> more knowledgable than HP about HP products.


        try

        http://delphi.corp.hp.com/ans/dce/



>
> 3) A general question about DCE.  Is it another application that sits on
> top of a TCP/IP stack like telnet, ftp, http, etc.  Are there any good DCE
> tutorials on the Web?
>


        Yes it sits on top of TCP/IP , requires the network services to be up.

        good info about dce can found at:

        http://www.osf.org/dce

        http://www.osf.org/dce/faq-mauney.html

        http://info.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/osf.html

        http://www.mmt.bme.hu/~kiss/docs/dce

 Regards,
 Avinash




> Many thanks in advance.
>
> /alan
> Alan Ambers
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