HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) (04/19/88)
<I am not on the list so send updates directly to me>. The Pc/Ip Scorecard revision 3: 03/10/88 --------------------- We are the process of trying to decide which Pc/Ip implementation would be the best. After asking around the overwhelming reply I have received has been, "If you ever find a comparison study, I would love to see it too". That is why I have decided to create the Pc/Ip Scorecard. 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. |Revision 3: Any implementation that has not had any sort of comment | made about it over the past 3 weeks has been removed. | There are still plenty of gaps in the ScoreCard. Please | help out. This first table is called "Must Have". Vendor TFTP POP ICMP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP ARP UDP max cost 100 FTP ($) -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| No | Yes| No | | No | | Yes| Yes| | | CMU | Yes| No | Yes| No | | No | No | Yes| Yes| | 0| Excelan | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 42k| 250|cpu FTP | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|160k| 400|cpu FUSION | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 40k| 300| IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|114k| 300|cpu KA9Q | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 0| MIT | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| 5k| 50|site NCSA | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | No | No | 30k| 0| Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 50k| 100|site SUN | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| 24k| 300|cpu UB | | | Yes| | | | | Yes| Yes| | | Wollongong | Yes| No | | | | | | | | 25k| 395|cpu The "max FTP" column is for the fastest FTP to a Pc (*not* from) seen by a user (in Kbytes/sec). It makes no difference in this table which machine was at the other end (obviously the faster the machine at the other end - the better). The following table lists the most popular Ethernet cards available and whether the Pc/Ip implementation works with the stated card. Vendor 3com Excelan Interlan UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 -----------+-----+--------+--------+-----+-----+-----+------+ Beame | Yes | No | No | No | | | | CMU | Yes | No | Yes | No | | | | Excelan | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | FUSION | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | IBM | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | KA9Q | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | MIT | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | NCSA | Yes | No | No | No | | | | Stanford | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Sun | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | UB | | | | | | | | Wollongong | Yes | | | | | | | This table is called the "Nice to Have" table. The functions listed here are not mandatory but are useful in a Tcp/Ip environment: Vendor name time fing whoi NFS gate srce Net ping SLIP srvr way code BIOS -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | | | | | Yes| No | | | CMU | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| | Yes| Yes| | | Excelan | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | | | FTP | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes| | | FUSION | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | | | IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | | | KA9Q | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| | | MIT | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | | | NCSA | Yes| No | No | No | No | No | Yes| | Yes| No | | | Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | | Yes| No | | | Sun | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | | UB | | | | | | | | | Yes| | | | Wollongong | | | | | | | | | | | | | FTP Software is OEMed to BICC ISOLAN, Fibronics, Proteon, cisco, Scope, Spider Systems and Micom-Interlan.
kzm@TWG.COM (04/26/88)
Hank, As you know, my previous message to you announced the capabilities of Release 3.2 of WIN/TCP for DOS. This release is just now finishing its beta-testing and becoming available to customers, so it is now appropriate to incorporate them into your scorecard. I apologise for delaying its completion. This release has the following capabilities : Vendor TFTP POP ICMP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP FTP ARP UDP max cost 100 Clnt Srvr FTP ($) -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+------+----+ Wollongong | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes|193KBs| 395| Vendor 3com Excelan Interlan UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3Com 3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 3C503 -----------+-----+--------+--------+-----+-----+-----+------+-----+ Wollongong | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Vendor -name-srvr time fing whoi NFS gate srce --NetBIOS-- ping SLIP DNS IEN116 way code 1001/2 link -----------+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+ Wollongong | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes| neg.| No | Yes | Yes| No | Notes : 1. I have expanded a couple of columns where I felt there was some ambiguity in the (necessarily abbreviated) column-header, for the specific purpose of being more accurate. You will know what your column headers mean, and thus are in a better position to judge which answer to use in the non-expanded form. 2. The 3C501 has been the ubiquitous card up until 3Com's recent move to replace it with the 3C503. If the 501 is still obtainable from a few sources, it won't be for very much longer. I think this makes a strong case for the 503's inclusion in your list. 3. The 193KBs is an average figure using a PS/2 Model 60 (we see occasional transfers of over 200KBs). Keith McCloghrie The Wollongong Group.