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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: microchannel hardware/software
Message-ID: <227@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 21:53:37 GMT
References: <8712232018.aa06604@Louie.UDEL.EDU>
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Summary: is this kosher?

In article <8712232018.aa06604@Louie.UDEL.EDU>, jb@TWG.ARPA (John Bartas) writes:
> Mike,
> Here at wollongong we are working on a driver for the 3Com 
> Microchannel card. We will be looking for Beta test sites 
> shortly.
[promotional material deleted]
> John Bartas
> Project Leader
> The Wollongong Group. 

[FLAME ON]
Is this kind of posting really kosher? I don't mind getting involved with
discussions about products, but using a newsgroup to solicit beta
test sites for a commercial product? Where I come from, we pay people
in Customer Service to plan and manage beta testing. mod.newprod is the
place for new product announcements, which have to meet fairly stringent
requirements (at least in theory.....)
[FLAME OFF]

Just to get a reasonable discussion going, can your scheme
handle multiple coresident network applications in the PC? 
I've been seeing lots of interest in being able to write
networking TSR's for printing, mail, remote control, etc.
Can a TWG application hook up with an existing resident copy
of the driver it wants?
-- 
Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems     | "What is appropriate for the master is not
SPD at ECD (home of PC-NFS)        | appropriate for the novice. You must
UUCP:{ihnp4,decwrl...}!sun!garnold | understand Tao before transcending struc-
ARPA:garnold@sun.com               | ture."      [The Tao of Programming, p.39]