HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) (07/23/89)
I guess I'm ready. Many thanks to the *dozens* of people who sent me their
suggestions for what needs to be added to the scorecard. As can be imagined,
there is no way I can incorporate all the suggestions but I think I was
able to use about 70% of them. Now I need for each user who is either
very familiar with a specific package or happens to a vendor of that package,
to extract the specific line(s) of their product, make the changes to
line (a total of 6 line), indicate which table it is from and then send me
those changes lines.
Under no condition send me the entire scorecard with your changes entered
into the scorecard and even worse, do not send me your changes in textual
format. I will only accept changes in tabular format.
Please reply only to me. The revised table will be posted on August 6th,
so please reply as soon as possible. Afterwards, your comments won't be
included.
The Pc/Ip Scorecard
revision 7: 08/??/89
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This scorecard will be like a PC Magazine analysis of of hard
disks or printers. But I need help in filling in the boxes. So,
here is what the scorecard looks like. Please send me your replies
and I will integrate all answers and comments and publish the
finalized scorecard in the weeks to come.
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TABLE #1:
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Vendor TFTP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP max cost packet
100 Clnt FTP ($) driver
-------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+---------+------+
Beame | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| 75k| @ | |
Clarkson NCSA| | | | | | | | |
Cornell | No| No | No | Yes| No | | 25@site| |
CMU | Yes| No | No | No | No | | 0@ | |
Excelan 3.3 | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| 88k| 250@cpu | |
FTP 2.02 | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|114k| 400@cpu | |
FUSION 3.2 | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| 85k| 300@ | |
IBM V1.1 | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| 90k| 200@cpu | |
KA9Q | No | Yes| No | No | Yes| 74k| 0@ | |
MIT | Yes| No | No | No | No | | 50@site| |
NCSA V2.2 | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| | 0@ | |
Stanford 3.0 | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| | 100@site| |
SUN PC-NFS | No |Xtra| Yes| No | Yes|167k| 395@cpu | |
UB TCP-PC v16| | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 74k| 495@cpu | |
WIN/TCP 3.2 | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes|200k| 395@cpu | |
Notes: 1) All versions must support ARP, ICMP and UDP
2) Max FTP is for the fastest FTP to a PC (*not* from) in
Kbytes/sec. The sending machine can be any machine.
The origin and destination of the FTP must be disk or
ramdisk. NUL is not a valid destination.
3) Packet driver column can have either a value of 'Yes' for
supporting the FTP Software spec for packet driver or
'Ndis' for supporting Microsoft/3Com's spec for the same
function or 'Odi' for supporting the Novell/Apple spec,
or 'ASI' for supporting the IBM TOKREUI spec.
4) The VT100 column can have a value of Yes for supporting
VT100 or the highest Digital terminal - i.e. VT220, VT240,
VT330, etc. supported.
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TABLE #2A:
The following tables list the most popular Ethernet cards
available and whether the Pc/Ip implementation works with the stated
card.
Vendor 3com Excelan Inter UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3com MICOM
3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 3C503 NI5210
-----------+-----+--------+------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+
Beame | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No
Clarkson | | | | | | | | |
Cornell | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No
CMU | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No
Excelan | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No
FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes
FUSION | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | | Yes
IBM | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No
KA9Q | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | | Yes
MIT | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
NCSA | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes
Stanford | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Yes |
Sun | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes
UB | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Wollongong | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No
TABLE #2B:
Vendor 3com WD Tiara IBM D-
3C505 8003ET/A LANcard TR Link
-----------+-----+--------+-------+----+-----+
Beame | | | | | |
Clarkson | | | | | |
Cornell | | | | | |
CMU | | | | | |
Excelan | | | | | |
FTP | | | | | |
FUSION | | | | | |
IBM | | | | | |
KA9Q | | | | | |
MIT | | | | | |
NCSA | | | | | |
Stanford | | | | | |
Sun | | | | | |
UB | | | | | |
Wollongong | | | | | |
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TABLE #3A:
This table is called the "Nice to Have" table. The functions
listed here are not mandatory but are useful in a Tcp/Ip
environment:
domn time fing whoi NFS gate srce Net- ping SLIP POP Tek
Vendor name srvr way code BIOS
srvr 1001
-----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
Beame | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Clarkson | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cornell | No| No| No| No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | |
CMU | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | |
Excelan | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | No | |
FTP | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No |Xtra|Xtra| Yes| Yes| No | |
FUSION | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | |
IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| |
KA9Q | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | |
MIT | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | |
NCSA | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | Yes| No | No | |
Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | | Yes| No | Yes| |
Sun | Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No |Xtra| No | Yes| Yes|Xtra| |
UB | Yes| No | | | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | | |
Wollongong | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | Yes| No | No | |
Notes: 1) POP refers to RFC937
2) gateway refers to IP forwarding capability
3) Xtra refers to an item that is available but at an added cost
4) Tek column refers to supporting Tektronix terminals. Specify
highest level of terminal supported, i.e. 4014.
TABLE #3B:
Vendor INT gra- mem-
14 phic ory
-----------+----+----+----+
Beame | | | |
Clarkson | | | |
Cornell | | | |
CMU | | | |
Excelan | | | |
FTP | | | |
FUSION | | | |
IBM | | | |
KA9Q | | | |
MIT | | | |
NCSA | | | |
Stanford | | | |
Sun | | | |
UB | | | |
Wollongong | | | |
Notes: 1) INT14 refers to the ability to support INT14 over Telnet.
2) Graphics column can either have the value of Yes, meaning
that the software supports some kind of graphics terminal
emulation; No; or Xtra. The specific 'graphics emulation'
is left vague on purpose.
3) Memory column refers to the amount of memory required to
load the specific Pc/Ip implementation.
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TABLE #4:
This table is meant to service users of the network in gaining more
information about a product. In order to limit the "commercialism"
that is inherent in this Scorcard, each vendor is allowed to supply
either a single Internet address or in the event of a lack of a valid
e-mail address, a FAX number. Only one will be accepted per vendor and
it is the vendor's choice to decide which will provide an easier method
for users to gain further information about their product.
In addition, by limiting it to one or the other, I will be neutralizing
the advantage shared by those that have Internet access as opposed to
those companies that do not have Internet access.
Beame |
Clarkson |
Cornell |
CMU |
Excelan |
FTP |
FUSION |
IBM |
KA9Q |
MIT |
NCSA |
Stanford |
Sun |
UB |
Wollongong |
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Final Notes:
1) FTP Software is OEMed to BICC Data Networks, Fibronics, Proteon,
cisco, Spider Systems, MICOM-Interlan, Scope, Univation and Western
Digital.
2) Clarkson software is an offshoot of the NCSA product.