[605] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: At What Price Will TCP/IP Connections Gain Wide Market Appeal?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taylor Walsh)
Tue Apr 16 23:20:42 1991
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 16:31:11 pdt
From: srchtec!emory!gatech!apple.com!well!taylorw%uupsi.UUCP@psi.com (Taylor Walsh)
To: Will@cup.portal.com, com-priv@psi.com
Will, I think part of your question asks: when will TCP/IP nets
replace Sprintnet (ne: Telenet), Tymnet, and CompuServe for access
to consumer services. Or: when will the third party providers who
distribute their stuff through these vendors decide to include access
via TCP/IP connections. Or: when will MCI Mail, AT&T, Sprint, Tymnet,
QuickCom (GE Info Services) and whomever else abandon the business
market for electronic mail; since email is about to go through the
roof (according to all estimates), I'd say, Not Too Soon.
Or: having invested heavily in X.25, when will these packet networks
invest in the addition to TCP/IP, and *really* confuse the hell out
of their corporate customers, who will look up with terror in their
eyes and say, "Ftp? What's ftp?"
TCP/IP is entrenched in one networking world. There is another
networking world that I don't expect will lightly yeild to this
acronymic intrusion...even though its corporate users can desperately
use it. Fun in the '90's...
