Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!OHIO-STATE.ARPA!verber
From: verber@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Mark Verber)
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re:  Aztec C version of MacIP
Message-ID: <8608011516.AA11114@ohio-state.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 11:16:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: ohio-sta.8608011516.AA11114
Posted: Fri Aug  1 11:16:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 00:42:17 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 30
Approved: info-applebus@c.cs.cmu.edu

The version of MacIP that Kinetics is currently shipping is the original
C-MU/Darthmouth port.  This was derived from an old MIT PC/IP and rewriten
for the Mac using Lisa Pascal.  It is *buggy* with a capital B.  We are using
it in our lab, but only our staff use it because we are unwilling to expose
normal users to the flakeyness.

I believe the Aztec-C version of MacIP is a C port derived from the same
version of MIT PC/IP that the Pascal version came from.  I have no idea if
it is less buggy.

Stanford ACIS staff are currently working on an improved/extended version
of MacIP.  They are merging Cornell's Aztec-C version of MacIP with the
latest/greatest version of MIT's PC/IP.  The advantage of the newwer
MIT PC/IP is that it supports multiple sockets.  This means that telnet
works better  (no longer a hack), and that ftp is supported rather than
being limitted to tftp.  The folks at Stanford are trying to finish their
work by the end of the summer.  

When they finish it OSU is going to port it to MPW C and mabye Lightspeed-C.
Once we port the new MacIP to a nice C compiler we will go to work to improve
the applications, and Bentleyize (optimize) the libraries.  We are planning
to support multiple telnet connections (each in it's own window of course),
and *fast* screen output.  We are also looking into the possibility of making
the MacIP libraries into either device drivers or at least a package which
can be loaded in by the applications that need it.

Cheers,
Mark A. Verber			verber@ohio-state.arpa  (internet)
The Ohio State University	verber@ohio-state.csnet (csnet)
+1 (614) 422-0915		cbosgd!osu-eddie!verber (uucpnet)