RAD@VAX02.AMS.COM (RichDeJordy@SRI-NIC.ARPA, x295) (10/08/88)
I have been commissioned to investigate the connection of micros to our hosts. Our hosts are on an ethernet running both DECnet and TCP/IP. I have some experience with VMS Services for DOS and with TSSnet, but I want to know what TCP/IP software would be out there for Macintoshes or PCs connected to the ethernet through Ethernet cards? (I do have some information about the Macintosh, but none about the PC. - Any information about products, concerns, or implementations would be a great help.) Thanks, Richard DeJordy Systems Programmer American Mathematical Society Post Office Box 6248 Providence, RI 02104 (401) 272-9500 RAD@MATH.AMS.COM on the Internet -------
CERF@A.ISI.EDU (10/09/88)
Apple Computer Corp has just announced MacTCP - it is a product for developers who want to build applications operating above TCP. The person at Apple to contact is Gursharan Sidhu or Jim Mathis, both in the Cupertino headquarters offices, I believe. A developer would pay $2500 for the MacTCP package and, if products are marketed based on the MacTCP, Apple requires another $2500 license fee. End user packages would presumably be much less expensive. Stanford has developed some applications operating above MacTCP, but these have not been commercially productized, so far as I know. There are other vendors who exhibited products at the Interop 88 show in Santa Clara, sponsored by Dan Lynch's ACE organization. Vint Cerf