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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: slip or ppp?
Message-ID: <12770@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 12:39:18 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr23.030748.7894@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr23.054224.22092@math.ucla.edu>
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In article <1991Apr23.054224.22092@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>"Morning Star Point to Point Protocols (PPP)
>route TC/IP over the serial line. $500. Avail. 2nd quarter 1991.
                                   ^^^^

>"SLiP-IN
>NeXT computers to SLIP servers. $295. Avail April 1991.
                                 ^^^^

What the hell?  It's *FREE* for the Sun, and it's *FREE* for PC
compatibles.  I can't afford $300 for most software.

Maybe a free version of PPP and/or SLIP would make a reasonable summer
project.

Maybe I'll get SoftPC and run PPP on *it*.
-- 
DdJ