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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:28:06 CST
- Sender: IBM TCP/IP List <IBMTCP-L@PUCC.BITNET>
- From: Frank Vance <fvance@WG.WAII.COM>
- Subject: IBM TCP/IP inadequacies (was Usage of vector facility for TCP/IP?)
- In-Reply-To: <9212230243.AA27743@relay1.UU.NET>; from "Denis DeLaRoca
- 825-4580" at Dec 22, 92 6:41 pm
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- Denis DeLaRoca 825-4580 writes:
- >
- > > "You're selling me the fastest general available computer on the
- > > planet and it connects to my network via this straw?"...
- >
- > ...and that straw many times plain doesn't work. The current release
- > of TCPIP continues to offer unsurmountable impediments to the develop-
- > ment and deployment of client/server applications using concurrent
- > tcp/ip services... it is an acknowledged problem and I am beginning
- > to develop the suspicion that IBM doesn't give a hoot about these
- > defficiencies.
- >
-
- I used to think that, but Bill R. convinced me they really do care, they
- just don't have the resources. So they try to focus on things they
- think are most in demand from the customers.
-
- My personal opinion is that the "typical" customer wants some crazy things,
- like CICS sockets, the NDB system, and the like, none of which I have
- use for. Of course, that "typical" customer probably thinks my
- requirement list (higher throughput, lower CPU consumption, better
- Network Systems support) is strange too.
-
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