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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Mac Appletalk to ethernet bridge
Message-ID: <1533@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 03:13:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 20 03:13:41 1986
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Centram Systems, Berkeley
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The KInetics box works quite well.  As for Telnet and TFTP, they do not
apparently work well on a Mac+, since there was no such thing when I wrote
them.  (I *tried* to get advance HFS documentation, but Apple apparently
refused to give it to anyone except commercial developers!)  CMU has made
the minor changes needed to make the thing run properly, and their version
is still effectively public domain; I believe the proper address to write to
for updated version information is chandhok@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Rob
Chandhok).  There is also a new version just out from Stanford/Cornell, but
it is available to universities only.  It is based more on the original MIT
PCIP than on mine, but I assume they've used some parts of Mark Sherman's
work and mine in developing it.  Information from croft@russell.stanford.edu
(Bill Croft).

Finally, I am working on a supported version here at Centram in Berkeley; it
should be available for beta test in January.  The chief advantage, other
than support, is that the protocols present a driver-like interface; you can
write your own protocols without having to link in my protocol code, so you
can give (or sell) your protocols to anyone you like.  Also, I am making it
easy to add support for your own network interfaces and your own terminal
emulators and the like through a standards mechanism.  The design of the
standards mechanism and the protocol "driver" support layer has been the
chief delaying factor, but it's come out even better than I'd hoped.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
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