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From: Tim.Radbourne@p5.f60.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Tim Radbourne)
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Subject: Little Big Lan ($75 network)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 14:54:13 GMT
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 > From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
 > Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
 >
 > Hi, all.  I've been talking with Don Jindra of Information Modes.  They're
 > working on a network that will cost $75 for all the software needed for
 > the whole network.  That's for the *whole* network, not per-node.  Anyway,
 > it's first going to run over serial ports and ARCNET, and then he's going
 > to work on an Ethernet version.
 >
 > So I asked him if he asked Datapoint for an ARCNET type code, or the
 > IEEE for an Ethernet type code, and he says "Nawwww, I don't bother
 > much with those standards.  They're all designed by committee, and
 > they've got these huge headers that just slow you down."  He *did*,
 > however, say that he would consider using a type code, but he didn't
 > think it was going to be a problem because he didn't think "the big
 > guys" were part of his market.
 >
 > He (rightly) points out that Artisoft (LANtastic) and Novell don't pay
 > much attention to standards either.  That's more of the
 > the-world's-an-ibm-pc-running-netbios syndrome that Otto pointed out
 > recently.
 >
 > I think that if a sufficient quantity of people call him and scream at him
 > about the necessity for interoperability and the user of type codes, that
 > he might get the message.
 >
 > Their phone number is 817-387-3339, address is
 >         Information Modes
 >         P.O. Drawer F
 >         Denton, TX 76202

Don't mess with him!

We need someone to take on Lantastic right now that they 
have changed their policy from selling their adapter 
independent NOS at $600 to wanting to licence their adapter 
independent operating system at $199 per node for software 
only.

Like he says... Lantastic didn't worry about the standards 
and it works quite well.

Lets get rid of the beaurucratic baggage where it is 
unnecessary.

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