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From: HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher)
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Subject: Pc/Ip ScoreCard - Revision 3
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Date: 10 Mar 88 07:21:47 GMT
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                         The Pc/Ip Scorecard
                        revision 3:  03/10/88
                        ---------------------

    We   are   the   process   of   trying   to   decide which Pc/Ip
implementation  would  be  the   best.   After  asking  around   the
overwhelming reply  I have  received has  been, "If  you ever find a
comparison study, I would love to  see it too".  That is why  I have
decided to create the Pc/Ip Scorecard.

    This scorecard will  be like a  PC Magazine analysis  of of hard
disks or printers.  But  I need help in  filling in the boxes.   So,
here is what the scorecard looks like.  Please send me your  replies
and  I  will  integrate  all  answers  and  comments and publish the
finalized scorecard in the weeks to come.

    All Pc/Ip implementations support IP, TCP, FTP and Telnet.   The
question then  is to  divide other  IP protocols  into categories of
"must have" to "nice to have but not necessary".

|Revision 3: Any implementation that has not had any sort of comment
|            made about it over the past 3 weeks has been removed.
|            There are still plenty of gaps in the ScoreCard.  Please
|            help out.


    This first table is called "Must Have".

Vendor      TFTP  POP ICMP SMTP VT-  3270 FTP   ARP  UDP max  cost
                                 100                     FTP  ($)
-----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
Beame      | Yes| No | Yes| No |    | No |    | Yes| Yes|    |    |
CMU        | Yes| No | Yes| No |    | No | No | Yes| Yes|    |   0|
Excelan    | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 42k| 250|
FTP        | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|160k| 400|
IBM        | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|    | Yes|    | Yes| Yes|    |    |
KA9Q       | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes| Yes|    |   0|
MIT        | Yes|    | Yes|    |    |    | No | Yes| Yes|    |  50|
NCSA       | No | No | Yes| No |    | No |    | No | No | 30k|   0|
Stanford   | No | Yes| Yes| Yes|    | No |    | Yes| Yes| 50k| 100|
SUN        | No | Yes| Yes| Yes|    | Yes|    | Yes| Yes|    | 300|
UB         |    |    | Yes|    |    |    |    | Yes| Yes|    |    |
Wollongong | Yes| No |    |    |    |    |    |    |    | 25k| 395|

    The "max FTP" column is for the fastest FTP to a Pc (*not* from)
seen by a user  (in Kb/sec).  It makes  no difference in this  table
which machine was at the other end (obviously the faster the machine
at the other end - the better).

    The  following  table  lists  the  most  popular  Ethernet cards
available and whether the Pc/Ip implementation works with the stated
card.

Vendor      3com  Excelan  Interlan  UB    WD   3Com  UB NIC
            3C501 EXOS205  NI5010   2273A 8003  3C523  PS/2
-----------+-----+--------+--------+-----+-----+-----+------+
Beame      | Yes |  No    |  No    | No  |     |     |      |
CMU        | Yes |  No    |  Yes   | No  |     |     |      |
Excelan    | No  |  Yes   |  No    | No  | No  | No  | No   |
FTP        | Yes |  Yes   |  Yes   | Yes | Yes | No  | No   |
IBM        | Yes |  No    |  No    | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes  |
KA9Q       | Yes |  No    |  No    | No  | No  | No  | No   |
MIT        | Yes |  No    |  Yes   | No  |     |     |      |
NCSA       | Yes |  No    |  No    | No  |     |     |      |
Stanford   | Yes |  No    |  No    | No  | Yes | Yes |      |
Sun        | Yes |  No    |  Yes   | Yes |     |     |      |
UB         |     |        |        |     |     |     |      |
Wollongong | Yes |        |        |     |     |     |      |

    This table is  called the "Nice  to Have" table.   The functions
listed  here  are  not  mandatory   but  are  useful  in  a   Tcp/Ip
environment:

Vendor      name time fing whoi  NFS gate srce Net  ping SLIP
            srvr                     way  code BIOS
-----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
Beame      | Yes| Yes| Yes| No |    |    |    |    | Yes| No |    |    |
CMU        | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes|    | Yes| Yes|    |    |
Excelan    | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No |    |    |
FTP        | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes|    |    |
IBM        | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes|    |    | Yes| No |    |    |
KA9Q       |    |    |    |    |    |    | Yes|    | No | Yes|    |    |
MIT        | No |    | Yes|    |    |    | Yes|    | Yes|    |    |    |
NCSA       | Yes| No | No | No |    |    | Yes|    | Yes| No |    |    |
Stanford   | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No |    | Yes| No |    |    |
Sun        | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|    |    |    | Yes| Yes|    |    |
UB         |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    | Yes|    |    |    |
Wollongong |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |

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