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- From: teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague)
- Subject: Re: ibm tcp/ip a ripoff?
- References: <C0pB29.6Lx@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.205112.17854@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 20:51:12 GMT
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- From article <C0pB29.6Lx@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson):
- > 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?
-
- A large number of NDIS drivers are available for anonymous ftp from
- vax.ftp.com in the ndis subdirectory.
-
- Keith Teague
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