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From: jbvb@ftp.UUCP (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Need help writing 3COM 3C501 driver for PC-AT (long)
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Date: 8 Jan 88 04:33:25 GMT
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A few additions & corrections to your posting:

When you said "NASA", I think you meant "NCSA", the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications.

For FTP's full, correct address, see below.

Full source for our package is available, but it is expensive.  The
libraries are $500, not $1000, but you need at least part of the
executable package to use them.  The exectuable package is $400
quantity 1, less in multiples.  Only the developer needs the libraries
(but the users need the part of the executables).

Of the 'free' packages, only CMU (and the MIT code it descended from)
have an unlimited public domain copyright.  Last I knew, both the KA9Q
and the NCSA were "no commercial use", which might rule out Boeing,
particularly if they planned to do a product.

I'm sorry about the Turbo C.  We heard everyone saying that it was
*very* compatible with Microsoft, so we thought it could be done with
our 1.1 release, but it turned out not to be compatible enough.  One of
the reasons we did 2.0 the way we did is to make those compiler swaps
simpler, and Turbo is on the list (but MSC 5.0 is ahead of it, and
neither will be worked on this month).

If you don't need the sockets, our 2.0 libraries include source for the
stub routines that do the INTs to the TSR TCP/IP kernel.  

James VanBokkelen
FTP Software Inc.
P.O. Box 150
Kendall Sq. Branch P.O.
Boston, MA  02142
(617) 868-4878