wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) (02/17/91)
We are looking for a set of products that will coexist on a PC clone.
These would need to perform the following:
For all users:
1. NFS
2. Telnet
3. FTP
This should know about nameservers, subnetting, and gateways.
For users who might need it (and have powerful enough PC's)
4. X-Server
I have been using Locus' PC-Interface and PC-Xsight for a few months,
but I find that PCI is too much of a memory hog to be useful.
Furthermore, their TCP-IP seems to have too many limitations and
problems to be usable in a heterogenous machine environment like
we have here.
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Jeff Wieland
wieland@acn.purdue.eduTANNERC@cu1.crl.aecl.ca (02/28/91)
Jeff We have used both PC-NFS (from SUN) and PC/TCP (from FTP) with X windows packages eXceed from Hummingbird (Toronto Canada) and X Vision from VIsionWare (this one works with Windows 3). a) Both provide reasonable reliable service for all TCP/IP functions. I have not been able to get the mail services for either working properly. In my opinion, PC/TCP is more reliable. b) If you are not using an X window's package, but are using something like QEMM, PC-NFS results in more memory available. With Windows 3, PC/TCP, X Vision and QEMM running, I have 406k of memory available. I am beginning to think that the only way to solve the memory problems on PC's is to use some form of UNIX. -- Chris Tanner Tannerc@CU1.CRL.AECL.CA AECL Research Chalk River Ont. Canada K0J 1J0