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- From: tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Telnetting to a PC (with FLAMES)
- Message-ID: <3321@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:31:02 GMT
- References: <Bsvost.J2L@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Naval Research Labratory, Washington, DC
- Lines: 38
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- In article <Bsvost.J2L@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> stefan@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Stefan Mochnacki) writes:
- >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.
-
- Funny you should mention this. I am a Unix person living in a PC
- world, so when things don't work, they always blame it on Unix,
- including networking. Somehow, I think when the motta of a company is
- "the network is the computer", they know their networking software
- pretty well.
-
- Yeah, I though it was pretty funny when this guy who kept giving me
- the same shit about how difficult it is to set up a Unix box can't get
- TCP to work on his PC. The packet driver that came with the ethernet
- card will work on some PC, but not others. While the packet driver I
- pulled off the net will work on the other PCs but not the original set.
- Or when you can't run TCP if you want to run MS Word under DOS because
- of memory conflict. Or when they can't put the TCP path in because they
- ran out of room. Or when he upgraded to Window 3.1, the TCP stuff
- stopped working (of course, it's the SUN software that screwed it up
- :)).
-
- Not only is it more esoteric to layout the memory in a PC, it's
- different on each and every PC depending on how the other software
- packages are set up.
-
- -Anthony
-