romkey@ftp.UUCP (John Romkey) (10/27/87)
Pardon me, but I would like to point out that this non-resident TCP is not a Wollongong innovation. Unless memory fails me, the code Wollongong is selling is PC/IP, which I wrote most of at MIT (and have since rewritten), with an FTP and some other modifications from Stanford. I think you'll find that the greatest percentage of PC's running TCP/IP will be running code that does not stay resident, because as far as I can tell more PC's are running PC/IP-derived software than any other TCP/IP: the free software from MIT, CMU, Stanford and UMD; the packages sold by Wollongong, FTP Software, Bridge, Micom-Interlan, Proteon, BICC, IBM, Fibronics-Spartacus, Univation, Unipress and Gold Hill. In fact, the Wollongong product is *quite* like a great many networking software packages. The major distinguishing features among the PC/IP-derived packages are the network interfaces they have drivers for, the applications they support, and who gives them away or sells them (and for how much). Inside, the packages I've listed are all pretty much PC/IP. By the way, I think I've made it clear in the past that I don't think that internally PC/IP is necessarily wonderful, so I am *not* saying that because they're descendants of PC/IP they're great. I'm just saying that because they're descendants of PC/IP, they're descendants of PC/IP. Most of them haven't really outreached their roots yet. - john romkey ftp software