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From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron)
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Subject: Re: SLIP (was Re: businessland fire sale tactics (eccch))
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Date: 14 Nov 90 18:16:54 GMT
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In article <1017@toaster.SFSU.EDU> stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne) writes:
>In article <11081@pt.cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:
>>order an upgrade board and get my home ethernet set up.  My old ibm-pc
>>has been earmarked as a slip-to-thinnet router.  What fun!
>>
>
>Is it not obvious to everyone, including NeXT that the only cost
>effective way for people to put their home on the Internet (or any net)
>is to use SLIP?  (Serial Line Internet Protocol)
>

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>to provide dial-in SLIP support.  The fact NeXT is still unwilling to
>support SLIP (or make it easily available), puts a damper on our
>ability to recommend NeXTs for home use.
>

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>MacIIs.  Will NeXT catch on that some its customers really 
>need SLIP?
>
>Stan
>
>-- 
>Stan Osborne, Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University
>Internet: stan@cs.sfsu.edu    Usenet: cshub!stan    Voice: (415) 338-2168

After hounding the local NeXT tech support guy, he finally pointed
me at a site which has a slip which "is supposed to work under 1.0".
He stressed the fact that this slip IS NOT a NeXT product, and
IS NOT supported by NeXT, IS NOT foo, and WILL NOT bar, etc, etc, etc :-)

The site is 129.18.18.3 (sorry don't know the "name" of the machine).
Annonymous ftp there and grab it.  I did a few days ago.

Unfourtunately, its a binary only copy, no docs, etc.  So, I haven't
gotten it installed yet (I went and grabbed cslip from a local machine
and am purusing the docs for that before I install the binary).

Hope this helps,

Paul Biron      pbiron@ucsd.edu        (619) 534-5758
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