Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:4784 comp.windows.news:824 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!kwe From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Hello from INTEROP88 Message-ID: <25187@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 18:29:53 GMT References: Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England) Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Organization: Boston Univ. Information Tech. Dept. Lines: 23 In article ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >I love a trade show that I can walk into almost any booth and >get logged in at reasonable speed to my home machine. I thought that the "Show and Tel-Net" [ha ha] was very effective. I spent a lot of time banging on terminal servers while I was at the show. In fact, I read your article while connected from a telnet session on a PC on token ring in U-B's booth in Santa Clara into my home system in Boston. And it was fast. The show nets were registered with the NIC, the nameservers worked, SNMP worked and a hell of a lot of stuff interoperated. I thought that InterOp was a very good demonstration of how seriously many vendors are taking interoperability. Value added is now added on top of the (standard) protocols and not with different and proprietary (for their own sake) protocols. Wave of the future? I saw a lot of product differentiation, it just wasn't at the protocol level, thank god. Had a lot of fun, too.