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In article <1992Oct12.000857.17476@news.columbia.edu> cl50@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Chengi  Lin) writes:
>What are the differences of Marble Teleconnect, Louis Marmakos' SLIP 
>implementation and Morning Star Technologies' PPP-SP?  What are the 
>advantages and disadvantages of these products?  

In one sense, SLIP is SLIP is SLIP.

Louis Mamakos' public domain SLIP works fine, but I think you need to
be network-savvy to use a package without the availability of tech
support.  If you are an experienced network administrator, this should
not present a problem for you.

My project leader recently put it this way.  To paraphrase, he said,
"Probably more engineering talent was wasted on RS-232 in the last
decade than was ever warranted."  Remember all those custom serial
cables?  Did anyone, even manufacturers, ever follow the spec?  Well,
networking is sort of like the RS-232 of the 1990s, except now there
are dozens of specs.  People grope along using folk wisdom, because
there are a very small number of persons on the planet with all the
specs in their heads.  Not to deter you though, networking is powerful
stuff.  With networking, I have discussions with several people around
the globe, in real-time.  Thanks to Mike Hawley, I browse the Library
of Congress and get color Weather pictures of the Earth at the same
time.  Thanks to GE and Contel, I can telnet to DUAT, get an FAA
weather briefing, and file my flight plan.  I can order technical
books from Quantum Book and rush-order a color scanner from HSD.  I'm
sure that once security is adequate, I'll be able to do my banking via
computer as well.  Geographical limitations fade away: demonstrating
Teleconnect in Russia in June, I mounted my Boston filesystem and used
it from Sergei Morozov's Workspace.

MorningStar has a history of competence in SLIP and PPP, networking
Sun computers.  I do not know about their NeXT product, but I am sure
that from a low-level networking point of view, they got the details
right.

[Note: I work for Marble.]  Marble Teleconnect has an easy-to-use
NeXTSTEP configuration front-end and a monitoring program.  It comes
with a manual, and tech support.  Teleconnect v2.0 will include PPP.
There will be several flavors of v2.0 available, depending on how you
expect to connect to the world at large.  Some flavors will include
others.  The NeXT computer's ease of use is a driving force in the
design, and tools to ease internet navigation will be included.  For
more details, contact Ray Bloom <ray@marble.com>, Vice President,
Marble Software Products, 1641 North First St., San Jose, CA 95112,
(408) 436-7299.

Geoffrey
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