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- From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
- Subject: Re: ibm tcp/ip a ripoff?
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1iratf$aqq@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:54:09 GMT
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- In <1iratf$aqq@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
-
- >a) expensive (150 pounds after educational discount);
-
- It's recently dropped in price, now $125 U.S. BEFORE edu discounts.
-
- >b) hard to get (took nearly a month after order was placed);
-
- I walked into the campus bookstore:
- "How much for IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2?"
- "Whats that?"
- "A TCP package for OS/2" (duuuuh)
- "Ah, oh, I don't think thats available yet"
- "Its been out for over a year now"
- "Well, it won't work on OS/2 2.0 then" (this was 4 months ago)
- "Yes it does"
- "Well, give me your number and I'll contact IBM and ask them"
-
- I never heard back.
-
- >c) few ethernet cards supported (compared to wattcp with clarkson
- >packet drivers);
-
- That's why I stick with WD/SMC stuff, its ALWAYS supported. Perhaps you
- should contact the manufacturer of the card for MAC and NDIS drivers for OS/2?
-
- >d) common tcp/ip programmes not or badly implemented (rsh does
- >not accept piped input or properly return stdout from the
- >executed command; ftp does not implement piped input/output for
- >get and put commands; etc).
-
- hopefully RSN.
-
- >f) screen redraws with remote logins through telnet are very
- >spastic;
-
- And just plain slow!
-
- >g) dos programmes executed from an os2 window through a telnet
- >login lockup the os2 machine;
-
- A person telnetting into the OS/2 machine can run PM apps which come up on
- the console screen, that should be fixed as well.
-
- >h) overweight (too many disks, too much memory);
-
- You could always delete what you don't want. The size of it seems about
- on par with the Unix TCPs I've worked with.
-
- >i) hard to setup (xenix tcp/ip took me about three hours from
- >openning the box to a reliable anonymous ftp service; wattcp took
- >about an hour from loading to basic operation; with os2, i'm
- >still at it weeks later).
-
- It took me about as long to get going as it did to install it and read the
- online docs. I wasn't setting up for nameservers however. Which caused
- another problem in that even if the /etc/resolv.conf file exists, it still
- "hangs" looking for a nameserver.
-
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