🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <manders1-2809952304110001@mac35.willets4.swarthmore.edu>,
manders1@swarthmore.edu (Michael Anderson) wrote:

> > "Kind of"?  Let's not mince words.  Open Transport is really one of the 
> > first steps in showing what a new architecture built from the ground up 
> > on PowerPC can do (when it works).  The speed is really nice (and even 
> > then, it still rests on some system code that will be rewritten for 
> > Copland) -- and it will only get better.
> 
> Ummm....as a PowerMac user I am well aware that PPC technology is already
> far ahead of Intel's offerings, and that the gap is only getting wider.  I
> am also aware that Copland will indeed result in a much faster, more
> stable, more memory efficient system.  So it is unquestionable that the
> technological future for Macs looks very bright compared the the
> technological future of PC's and Win95 (although that is not to say that
> their market share future does not look very bright, quite the contrary). 
> However, owning a PowerMac 7200, I am not sure that I would use Open
> Transport as a *premier* example.  It may well have faster throughput, but
> for some reason it takes a really long time to make connections, find
> servers, etc.  And since all the stuff I do is looking up servers and
> making connections through Eudora, Netscape, and Newswatcher, rather than
> large file transfer, it has resulted in significantly slower performance. 
> In fact, I am thinking of switching to MacTCP.  Just my 2 cents. 
> PowerMacs are certainly superior to PC's, but I'm not sure that Open
> Transport itself is that great.

Sounds like a problem. OT should be faster across the board. It certainly
is on my system - Netscape accessing a web page locally but a different
subnet does it almost instantly and it's not even making OT calls. Only
Newswatcher 2.0 and Anarchie 1.6 use OT AFAIK. Eudora has some serious
problems with OT but Netscape does alright. 

With Anarchie and OT, I commonly get 200K/sec or better downloads from
amug and local servers - MacTCP had a hard time hitting 100K. Establishing
connections is extremely fast. Are you using PPP or SLIP in there? They're
still pretty flaky.

OT is that great. It will become evident when they shake out some of the
bugs (it still has way too many) and when it is really put to use. The
concept of networking without the software having to know what connection
is in place should make the Mac a pleasure to use.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine