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From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: System 7, Telnet, GatorBox
Message-ID: <24495@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 13:56:37 GMT
References: <9106131900.AA06617@midway.cayman.com> <9106132014.AA26084@psuoradm.cc.pdx.edu>
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a2mp@PSUORADM.CC.PDX.EDU (Michael Perrone) writes:
> I must
> wonder why, brian, you must use NCSA Telnet 2.3? It's easy enough to
> order a copy of MacTCP (and though MacTCP needs to be rev'd for system
> 7, it will work with system 7 if you have VM turned off, and keep
> it in the root level of system folder with an alias in the control
> panels folder) and telnet 2.4b11 has many bug fixes from the 2.3 version.
> Not only that, but MacTCP has much greater throughput than the
> 'builtin' TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in 2.3.

     Well, it's not a matter of $100 for a single copy of MacTCP.  It's a
matter of $2500 for a site license for MacTCP.  As someone else has pointed
out on this list, Cayman has a license to distribute MacTCP, and the license
seems to cover anyone sitting behind a GatorBox.  (I.e., almost a site
license, for free.)
     Granted, MacTCP is pretty nifty; we've got a few single-user licenses
already.  And if our only choice was to use MacTCP, we'd have spent the
$2500.  But I didn't think that was our only choice.  Still don't.