Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!erick
From: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Re: Clarkson 3C503 & PC-NFS
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.071505.15940@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <9103160018.AA17559@alw.nih.gov> <9103151710.AA08850@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 07:15:05 GMT
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In article <9103151710.AA08850@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us writes:
...
>solutions to this problem. Make there be a binary standard. Get people
>or organizations to provide API translators. Persuade your favorite
>(or most hated) vendor to port around other applications or provide
>some kind of other support for them.

Agreed, lets see some vendor show some leadership and make a proposed
TCP API publicly available.  My last post on this subject earned me some
mail indicating this is a desired thing.   I guess the biggest problem
is the lost revenue in developer toolkits, huh?


(BTW I tried to respond to everyone, but some mail addresses did not work.
 Particularly those routing through UoT such as SCOCAN)
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Erick Engelke                                       Watstar Computer Network
Watstar Network Guy                                   University of Waterloo
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