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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!stefan
- From: stefan@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Stefan Mochnacki)
- Subject: Re: Telnetting to a PC (with FLAMES)
- Message-ID: <Bsvost.J2L@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Sender: news@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:07:41 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Telnetting to a PC
- Message-ID: <Aug12.151216.49449@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:12:16 GMT
- References: <Bsu8n3.Dnz@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Reply-To: kk881595@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
- Organization: Engineering College, Colorado State University
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-
- I wrote:
-
- > OK, what WOULD be very nice is a PC screen to PC screen sort of telnet,
- > not the TCP/IP standard defined by the VT100 (sort of like
- > native mode PC-ANYWHERE...)
- >
- > Has any noble soul produced such an offering for us network beggars?
- >
-
- Kevin Knapmiller replies:
-
- If you are willing to pay some money and want a little more than
- this you should check out DesqView/X. It might be more than
- you need or cost more than you want to pay, even though the
- price in September 'might' be acceptable to many of us.
-
- (See newsgroup comp.os.msdos.desqview)
-
-
- Yes, I quite agree, and we already have a copy, but in addition to
- the Desqview/X you need Quarterdeck's TCP/IP Manager, AND the FTP
- kernel (or soon a TCP/IP kernel from Novell...). This just about
- triples the price; we're talking very serious bucks, and we ARE
- eventually going to have several systems running DVX, but for our
- typical low-budget NCSA Telnet user the economics make no sense.
- Also there are much more limited applications than would warrant
- shelling out the big bucks. I think Quarterdeck made a serious mistake in
- going for the Novell market instead of the TCP/IP world.
-
- FLAME ON:
-
- An aside: All that hype from Microsoft, Lotus, Novell etc. about
- e-mail and WANs I think is ridiculous. Why are all these companies
- re-inventing what we in the Unix world have had for years? It's the
- same logic which hypes up Windows and keeps MS-DOS alive as
- the primary PC OS (on 486's no less ... absurd !). And all this
- silly rubbish about Unix systems being "user-unfriendly" or
- "needing a guru to run": setting up the memory layout
- on a PC these days is far more esoteric than bringing up a
- Unix workstation. It reminds me of the absurdities of
- JCL (now who on this group knows what THAT is ?)
-
- FLAME OFF.
-
-
- Phew. Now, does anybody know or have any idea how much Solaris
- for the PC will cost ?
-
- - Stefan Mochnacki
-
-
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