Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Looking for a Mac news reader Message-ID: <1990Apr10.151558.10121@intercon.com> Date: 10 Apr 90 15:15:58 GMT References: <15642@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1990Apr5.194010.4207@intercon.com> <21713@cs.yale.edu> <2427@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <6177@accuvax.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 19 In article <6177@accuvax.nwu.edu>, jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes: > Amanda Walker's Mac newsreader is also very nice, and it's faster than > NetNews. It's part of Intercon's commerical TCP Connect product. Why thank you :-). The limiting overhead in the NNTP stack seems to be the HyperTalk overhead, since it is using generic TCP XCMDs and doing things like scanning for result codes, et al., in HyperTalk. It's a very impressive MacTCP demo, but I found it far too slow for day-to-day use. I do admit I'm biased, however--my newsreader is almost instantaneous talking to a lightly loaded 20 MIPS NNTP server over Ethernet... Besides, it has kill files :-). Peace, -- Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation -- "Y'know, you can't have, like, a light, without a dark to stick it in... You know what I'm sayin'?" --Arlo Guthrie