
First -- what is SLIP?

Until recently, home computers connected to the outside world by behaving
like a terminal for a distant computer.  This is what happens when you
call a BBS or a dial-in service like Compuserve -- your computer screen
simply reports what is happening on the distant computer.  This is
available on INTAC, too.  But with SLIP or PPP things are radically 
different.

SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) and PPP (Point-to-point Protocol)
are very similar and essentially permit two computers to be connected
together through an ordinary serial or COM port in the same way that all 
the computers on the Internet are connected.  

What this means is that your home computer can be more than a dumb
terminal -- it can be an actual node on the Internet just like INTAC and 
the Library of Congress and Columbia University are!

Once you've established your SLIP connection to INTAC, your computer is 
on the Internet!  You are riding the Information Superhighway!  You can 
do more than one thing at a time -- in one window download a file, in 
another read your mail.  File transfers move directly to your computer 
-- not to INTAC for download later.  Mail comes directly to your computer 
for you to read at your leisure.  News can come directly to your computer.  
And if someone out there knows your ip address (your official location on 
the Internet) they can login to your machine, send you mail, or transfer 
files! 

Before installing the files call Intac at 201-944-3990 to set up a FREE
14 day account.    Voice # 201-944-1417

*****Tell them (pgrab) sent you.****** 

Enjoy.
