dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/23/91)
Has anyone heard any news about slip or ppp being avaiable for the NeXT? -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr23.030748.7894@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes: > > Has anyone heard any news about slip or ppp being avaiable for the NeXT? > Yes. The Spring 1991 Sofware and Peripherals guide just came out (get one from your local next rep.) There, under Connectivity and Communications, we see two offerings: "Morning Star Point to Point Protocols (PPP) A functional replacement for SLIP that allows computers to route TC/IP over the serial line. $500. Avail. 2nd quarter 1991. Morning Star Technologies, Inc 1-800-558-7827 614-451-1883" and: "SLiP-IN A commercial grade implementation of SLIP to support dialup, leased, and hardwired interconnections among NeXT computers, and from NeXT computers to SLIP servers. $295. Avail April 1991. Marble Associates, 617-891-5555" So, it looks like the promised land is here. PS: Get your Spring Software guide---lots of new goodies on the way. We've even got our own COBOL compiler now! -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr23.054224.22092@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: > [text deleted --SJB] >> > >So, it looks like the promised land is here. > >PS: Get your Spring Software guide---lots of new goodies on the way. >We've even got our own COBOL compiler now! > GASP!!! Tell me it's not true!! All those poor, helpless NeXTs... Can you imagine how twisted the dear things will become? > >-- >Barry Merriman >UCLA Dept. of Math >UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research >barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Spent a little time on the mountain, Spent a little time on the * * Hill, The things that went down you don't understand, But I * * think in time you will." Oakland, 19 Feb. 1991, first time * * since 25 Sept. 1970!!! Yippee!!!! Wondering what's NeXT... :-) * **********************************************************************
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr23.054224.22092@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: >"Morning Star Point to Point Protocols (PPP) >route TC/IP over the serial line. $500. Avail. 2nd quarter 1991. ^^^^ >"SLiP-IN >NeXT computers to SLIP servers. $295. Avail April 1991. ^^^^ What the hell? It's *FREE* for the Sun, and it's *FREE* for PC compatibles. I can't afford $300 for most software. Maybe a free version of PPP and/or SLIP would make a reasonable summer project. Maybe I'll get SoftPC and run PPP on *it*. -- DdJ