croft@RUSSELL.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Croft) (07/01/87)
Kinetics dropped off a copy of their new 'Prompt 2.0' program, it's available for FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, directory <info-mac>, file at-prompt2.hqx. We've also posted the NCSA telnet, for more flexibility in the hours during which you can FTP; those files are at-ncsa-telnet112.hqx and at-ncsa-doc.hqx. Attached are some comments from Tim at Kinetics about the new Prompt, etc. ====== Date: Sun, 28 Jun 87 23:53:36 pdt From: normac!tim@russell.stanford.edu To: croft@russell.stanford.edu Subject: news update Actual-Sender: Tim McCreery Hi there. I put a new prompt program (now called fastpath mgr) that we just released in the kinetics home directory on russell. It contains many features I'm sure you'll recognize as suggestions you made. Unfortunately, no kip support yet, but that is in progress. Feel free to put this into info-mac on sumex in hexbin format or whatever. Be sure to check out the diagnostic window feature. It should eliminate the need for Peek during gateway configuration. The RPC method of resetting the latch in order to get the RESET button work without a power cycle only works SOME of the time. There is some code for the RAM program that makes it work every time. We found some more problems with the 'new' ie.c hence the slowness of Russ here giving it to you. It's really just as well that we didn't give it to you yet since now we would be changing it again. We have an Excelan lanylyzer now (on a compaq 286) and we are learning more nitty gritty about the Intel 82586. We (Russ) have been testing under more and more environments including the largest AppleTalk net in the world (at Apple) and the Mac II with one of the few 3Com cards running EtherTalk. The Mac II under the MacOs sends Ethernet packets as fast as 100-120 usec apart and the gateway can (now) still handle a sustained burst of such packets modulo the number of buffers. By the way, EtherSC with the Mac II appears to be about the same speed. Likewise the new PROM has been getting a good check out at Apple and it seems that all the timing problems are (almost) cleared up. It also has the ability to execute the program in the other PROM socket. ======