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- From: "Marcel Offermans" <marcel@wbmt41.wbmt.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:55:31 +0100
- Organization: Private TCP/IP node
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- Hello Michael,
-
- > I-Net 225 and AS225 are the BSD 4.3 networking stack, plus selected
- > enhancements from BSD 4.4 (NetBSD). R2.0 will be based around NetBSD
- > 1.1.
-
- > What counts in the real world is support. More folks have been
- > supporting AS225 longer than anything else -- and I-Net 225 is 100%
- > compatible. There are likely more installed systems with AmiTCP today --
- > but maybe not in six months.
-
- That depends on a couple of things. For one, you can legally use AmiTCP for
- free, whereas you have to pay a lot for I-Net 225. It's true that AmiTCP
- 4.2 is expensive too, but at least there you have the option of using the
- 4.0 demo release. Another issue will be the speed and memory usage. Then
- there's the availability of the product. I can buy AmiTCP in a couple
- of places over here.
-
- I will not judge I-Net 225 until I've actually seen it. It's just that I'm
- quite happy with AmiTCP at the moment and it won't be easy for I-Net to
- take over the Amiga networking market, IMHO. People have to be *very*
- convinced that it is better before they'll upgrade from AmiTCP. Especially
- since it's very expensive.
-
- I think AT should really provide a TCP/IP stack with AmigaOS as a standard,
- but that's a different issue.
-
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