ftanaka@polyslo.UUCP (Forrest Tanaka) (04/20/88)
Does anyone know how to get in touch with a company called Network
Innovations? I heard that they have or will have a product called
CL/1 which allows Macintosh programs to communicate transparently
with various mainframes. Mail responses. Thanks a bunch y'all.
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Forrest Y. Tanaka
Diablo #25, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93410
(805) 756-3385
...{csustan,csun,sdsu}!polyslo!ftanakaack@caldwr.caldwr.gov (David Ackerman) (04/23/88)
In article <1999@polyslo.UUCP>, ftanaka@polyslo.UUCP (Forrest Tanaka) writes: > Does anyone know how to get in touch with a company called Network > Innovations? I heard that they have or will have a product called > CL/1 which allows Macintosh programs to communicate transparently... Their contact info is: Network Innovations Corporation 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 257-6800 I talked to them at Texpo in Anaheim yesterday, and they said that CL/1 will not be released until August. One thing that excited me was that CL/1 is going to be included in a future release of the Toolbox! Imagine being able to make calls to the Toolbox to send SQL queries to a server process on a host...sounds like good stuff to me. I am also looking forward to releases of the CL/1 server end for operating systems other than VMS, and for more standard networking protocols like TCP/IP. Right now they only do DECnet and Appletalk, as well as serial lines or via modem. What Apple needs to do now is integrate all the features that Rob Jellinghaus was talking about into the OS. And Apple, while you're at it, how about some decent IPC facilities so applications can send data to each other? Automated cut & paste. Microsoft is trying to do that in kind of a kludgey way, and from what I've heard, Apple is trying to put them into Multifinder. The sooner the better...there are some important applications for such capabilities. I love my Mac, but there are areas (in the OS especially) that need improving. Let's hope Apple uses those millions of R&D bucks to produce some of those improvements. David Ackerman California Department of Water Resources caldwr!ack@ucdavis.edu (Internet) "It's the water, and a lot more..." ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!ack (UUCP) The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State of California or the California Department of Water Resources.