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From: rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNET And Our Serial Device
Summary: SLIP
Message-ID: <2278@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 14:20:18 GMT
References: <518@madnix.UUCP> <6527@super.ORG>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <6527@super.ORG>, rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>    At some point it looked like Ameristar was gonna release SLIP 
> support, but i guess it never came to pass? Rick? (hmmm, Rick may be
> over in Next-land by now ...)

	Hi Ron,

	No, I am here in Amiga-land :-)  We are starting to see
	some nice standards work on dialup SLIP, eg CSNet's version,
	so we will be dusting off our plans to market a SLIP based
	product.  My early plans to market SLIP were placed on hold
	after it became apparent that there were several versions of
	SLIP out there that were potentially incompatible, and that
	there were no standards at all in dealing with dialup SLIP.

	I'll have this out after Siggraph, along with a
	boatload of server side applications.  We will make our SLIP
	driver configurable enough that it will be compatible with
	third party serial products, such as the ones from ASDG.  I find
	the prospect of inexpensive third party serial products very
	exciting in that it will provide an inexpensive way for people
	to buy into our upcoming NFS based peer to peer network
	technology.  

	BTW, I would point out that at least some of the packages
	that are commonly identified as "public domain" in fact
	are not.  For example, the KA9Q package is not commercially
	redistributable.

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar Technology