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From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey)
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Subject: Excelan EX0S 205T, no public domain software?!?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 20:15:21 GMT
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The reason there's no public domain software is that Excelan normally
ships the boards with their own resident TCP and all the public domain
software has its own internal TCP and the interfaces on each different
piece of software are quite different. So it's never been worth the
effort to anyone to hack up the public domain stuff.

Also, the smart Excelan boards cost more than similar performance dumb
boards, and most people who like to run the public domain software
like cheap boards, too...
				- john