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- From: erick@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: NDIS (was: TCP/IP and Windows for Workgroups)
- Message-ID: <By6Kqz.J67@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov21.071344.19293@alisa.com> <TARJEIJ.92Nov23094109@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:01:46 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- > tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) writes:
- >A local wendor claims that ODI is more reliable than either NDIS or packet
- >drivers. This is especially true under MS Windows. The person I talked to
- >claimed that he'd never experienced "hanging" with ODI.
-
- Hi Tarjei, long time no see...
-
- Anyone who claims to use Windows without it ever hanging is either
- divinely blessed or using a very selected group of applications.
-
- The hardest part is that it lacks real operating system functionality
- for the developers. It's pretty darn hard to figure out why Windows
- crashed *this* time... so things probably take longer to resolve.
-
- >Supposedly one does
- >not have to worry about what communication medium one uses when using ODI.
-
- That's pretty much true because ODI 'hides' the details of the
- specific medium, making Token Rings, Arcnets and Ethernets all
- look very similar. Perhaps that is a ODI-puritan's view.
-
- My personal opinion is that ODI forces developers to write media
- independant code. So your favourite programmers must read several
- hundred pages, mope around for a few days, and generally annoy
- everyone around them. But they only have to do it once and then
- they inherit all the benefits of Novell's finest who hand crafted
- some excellent device device driver management code.
-
- ... flameproofing on
- CRYNWR packet driver code is great too, I'm referring to the convienent
- ODI buffer stuff; Packet driver applications are easier to code and
- perhaps easier to debug; 'Novell's finest' does not imply Keith isn't
- one of them if he wasn't involved; and most commercial TCPs offer
- some level of ODI support if you want it. BTW, Joe offers free ODI/PktDvr
- code for anyone who wants to look.
- flameproofing off...
-
- Erick
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- Erick Engelke WATTCP Architect
- erick@development.uwaterloo.ca TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI
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