daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown) (08/27/87)
In article <KPETERSEN.12329668599.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> Stef@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM writes: >I am sending this to the whole list, plus -request because I think it is >important to immediately press a vital issue, as follows: >The entire globe needs yet anotehr new protocol like it needs 5 billion >new holes, one each in the heads of the earth's 5 billion people. In re a counterproposal to a version of X.25 (x.pc?) for serial dialup, how about someone digging out a copy of SLIP (Serial lline IP) and posting a review of it here. If its 1) portable 2) verifiable and 3) of moderate size, then I would suggest its use as a short-term facility for connecting diverse micros/minis/mainframes pending the arrival of non-experimental ISDN. --dave (ISDN is ISO-flavored, and the trials look real hopefull) cb -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.