[9830] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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Re: Sizing the Internet market

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Sat Jan 22 13:25:52 1994

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 94 12:24:57 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)

What about PPP? I've found it pretty bullet-proof on the Mac, and getting
pretty close on Windows machines. PPP is so close to solving this problem
once and for all that we really ought to push on the Windows PPP vendors to
make their implementations at least as good as MacPPP.

>SLIP is a different story, in my view. It just ain't easy 
>yet--requires too much responsibility and knowledge on the end 
>user's part, no matter how attractive Mosaic is.
>
>James Gleick
>The Pipeline

Larry Walker
System Architect                               email: walkerl@med.ge.com
GE Medical Systems                             phone: 414.785.8262
P.O. Box 414 / NB-902                            fax: 414.785.4331
Milwaukee, WI  53201                        dialcomm: 8*322-8262


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