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Subject: Re: Personal Computers and TCP/IP
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Date: 8 Oct 88 21:37:00 GMT
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Apple Computer Corp has just announced MacTCP - it is a product for
developers who want to build applications operating above TCP.

The person at Apple to contact is Gursharan Sidhu or Jim Mathis, both
in the Cupertino headquarters offices, I believe.

A developer would pay $2500 for the MacTCP package and, if products
are marketed based on the MacTCP, Apple requires another $2500 license
fee. End user packages would presumably be much less expensive.

Stanford has developed some applications operating above MacTCP,
but these have not been commercially productized, so far as I know.
There are other vendors who exhibited products  at the Interop 88
show in Santa Clara, sponsored by Dan Lynch's ACE organization.

Vint Cerf