Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!encore!loverso
From: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: UREP on SUN
Message-ID: <2518@encore.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 18:23:01 GMT
References: <8801140130.AA21999@jade.berkeley.edu>
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Reply-To: loverso@encore.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <8801140130.AA21999@jade.berkeley.edu> leonid%taurus.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu writes:
> Get the original UREP package from PSU...which is $800 for an educational site

$800 for UREP?  Thats unbelievable!  I cannot imagine what change in UREP
made it so valuable that the "distribution" fee was increased by 4 times!
For comparision, for $1000 you can get all of 4.3BSD, distributed fresh
from Berkeley and you get much more value for your money!

Anyway, I ran a UREP-connected bitnet site (sunybcs.bitnet) for a few years,
and had no end to the pains that UREP caused (between all the bugs and
security holes).  I would not put UREP up on any machine where I didn't
want global access to "root".  By "global", I *do* mean bitnet-wide access.

If you're going to spend on a leased-line 9600 baud link (in the USA), you'd
probably be better off running IP over it (SLIP, anyone?) and connecting into
NSFNET.

John Robert LoVerso, Encore Computer Corp
encore!loverso, loverso@multimax.arpa
[The views expressed above are my own, and no reflection of those of Encore]