Using a BrxPPP add-in board from Brixton Systems Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, remote Sun Microsystems Inc workstations users can transparently share applications, databases, printers, files and other peripherals via telephone line connections – or routers that support the Point-to-Point protocol – as if they were on a local area network; meanwhile Brx3770/RJE connects Unix systems and IBM Corp mainframes using TCP/IP and IBM’s SNA: out now, each costs $1,950.
