Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
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Date: 17 Jan 89 15:26:18 GMT
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In article <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> hummel@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Written  9:32 am  Jan 13, 1989 by rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu in comp.sys.amiga:
>In article <7200073@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Best isn't subjective; it's context sensitive :-)  In the context that I was 
>writing, I'll stand by my statement that
>>> at standard serial line speeds (1200-19.2K baud).
>DNET is the best there is.
well, then there are two best's, i guess. The Karn tcp/ip on the amiga
was kinda nice. I could ftp to swan.ulowell.edu directly from 
ronsamiga.udel.edu; DNET is point-point only. If you have a Cisco
box you can plug your amiga right in and be on the network, all for free. 
At 19.2 Kb i saw about the same throughput and utilization (99%, more or
less) for DNET and amigatcp. A 19.2 kb link is nice, considering that
the original arpanet links were 56 kb! 
   The single biggest problem was that i ran out of time to get the
last bug out of internet.device, so you did not have the 'run a program
for another window' that dnet has. But you could still have multiple sessions
right from the original Karn code. I am going to try to submit this to 
comp.sources.amiga again (it got lost in the Black Hole at purdue last march)
and see if anyone fixes the bug. 
ron
P.S. Yes, i use DNET now and did then; it's great. Ran fine under Ultrix
{1,2}.x.