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From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Version 5.0 (?) software available yet? Advanced SLIP?
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Date: 1 Sep 89 15:09:11 GMT
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Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
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I cannot commit to what might be contained in R5.0, since it is
still under development.  However, I can point out that in the past
few months we've demonstrated quite a few things.  Dial-up SLIP has
already been shown and is part of R4.1.  Further extensions to that
for a dial-out capability are planned.

At the Baltimore USENIX conference, and again at the Boston UNIFORUM
show, an Annex II terminal server was used to provide a SLIP
connection from the local net (just the terminal room at USENIX,
and the whole vendor net at UNIFORUM) to Internet.  In both cases,
a pre-release version of Van Jacobson's header compression code
was used (great thanks to Van for making that possible), and the
physical link was over a pair of Telebit T2500 V.32 modems.  Finally,
in the planning stages for next month at the InterOP-89 conf in
San Jose, is a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of the
proposed Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).  Xylogics is committed to
being a part of this demonstration.

Also a note: coming soon is to be an "info-annex" mailing list,
and (I've been told) a "comp.sys.annex" inet-distribition newsgroup.

John
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John Robert LoVerso			Xylogics, Inc.  617/272-8140
loverso@Xylogics.COM			Annex Terminal Server Development Group