FWD: Hotels wired for Internet.... If you run the right OS

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Subject: Hotels wired for Internet.... If you run the right OS
   Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:55:42 -0500 (EST)
   From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
     To: Multiple recipients of list <am-info@essential.org>

Some high end business hotels will soon provide high-speed Internet
access to any traveler with an Ethernet card in his or her laptop. But
there's a catch. Even though the Internet's TCP/IP is a non-proprietary 
protocol, and should by rights be usable from any operating system, the
vendor -- ATCOM -- requires users to load special software that runs
only on Windows or NT. In short, businesspeople who have Apple
PowerBooks (whose ease of use makes them especially popular with
executives) can't use the high-speed Internet links at these hotels.
Likewise, users with  a Newton, a 3Com Palm Pilot, or an IBM compatible 
running Linux or FreeBSD, need not apply. See

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98034.eihotels.htm

and ATCOM's site at 

http://199.106.231.111/

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--Brett Glass