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From: elwell@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell)
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Subject: Re: TOPS and low-speed modems
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Date: 8 Jul 88 15:17:03 GMT
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sunny@astral.UUCP writes:
    You'd think that TOPS would be interested in making available either
    a new version of their software, or some kind of patch which would
    allow a longer timeout so that we could successfully run TOPS across
    modem bridges and modem remote access links.  But then, who cares what
    the $ paying user wants...
    
    				Sunny

Well, we've gotten some recent beta versions from TOPS, and although I
don't think we're under non-disclosure (we've only got 1700 students
using them :-)), I'll only say this much:  they have improved
performance across bridges in general to quite an impressive extent.
We don't use InterBridges, so I don't know if it will help, but all of
our timeout and performance problems have disappeared.

There are some other nice things (and of course, a few more bugs :-)),
but there is hope.  I have historically had a real bad attitude about
TOPS, but even I feel that they seem to be getting their act together,
which is nice to see.


Clayton M. Elwell 
Ohio State University CIS Dept. Research Computing Facility

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