[sci.math.symbolic] slip or ppp?

dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/23/91)

 Has anyone heard any news about slip or ppp being avaiable for the NeXT?

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barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (04/23/91)

In article <1991Apr23.030748.7894@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes:
>
> Has anyone heard any news about slip or ppp being avaiable for the NeXT?
>

Yes. The Spring 1991 Sofware and Peripherals guide just came out
(get one from your local next rep.)

There, under Connectivity and Communications, we see two offerings:

"Morning Star Point to Point Protocols (PPP)
A functional replacement for SLIP that allows computers to
route TC/IP over the serial line. $500. Avail. 2nd quarter 1991.
Morning Star Technologies, Inc
1-800-558-7827
614-451-1883"

and:

"SLiP-IN
A commercial grade implementation of SLIP to support
dialup, leased, and hardwired interconnections among NeXT computers, and from 
NeXT computers to SLIP servers. $295. Avail April 1991.
Marble Associates,
617-891-5555"


So, it looks like the promised land is here.

PS: Get your Spring Software guide---lots of new goodies on the way.
We've even got our own COBOL compiler now!





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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)

bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (04/24/91)

In article <1991Apr23.054224.22092@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>  [text deleted  --SJB]
>>
>
>So, it looks like the promised land is here.
>
>PS: Get your Spring Software guide---lots of new goodies on the way.
>We've even got our own COBOL compiler now!
>
     GASP!!!  Tell me it's not true!!  All those poor, helpless NeXTs...
Can you imagine how twisted the dear things will become?
>
>--
>Barry Merriman
>UCLA Dept. of Math
>UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
>barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
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