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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.160237.23925@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 16:02:37 GMT
- References: <keyhazu00iUyQ5bXxL@andrew.cmu.edu> <JR5051.92Nov6212457@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <JR5051.92Nov6212457@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> jr5051@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu (Them that be them) writes:
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- >>TCP/IP for os/2 is also made by IBM. If you have access to the
- >>educational discounts, you get the whole deal for less than $300. This
- >>software is pretty good (although LaMail, the mail reader is below
- >>average) and IBM really does take care of the users well. The whole deal
- >>includes X, TCP/IP (with lots of adaptors supported). I would recommend
- >>it to anyone.
-
- > Do you know if slip is supported? Thanks!
-
- Yes.
-
- Now for my question. If I wanted to run OS/2 2.0, SLIP, X, and NFS on
- a 386-25 with only 6 MB of memory, just how unbearably slow would it
- be?
-
- [Probably a silly question, but I can dream, right?]
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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