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From: dddau@acs3.acs.ucalgary.ca (Doug Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit MAC??
Date: 6 Jun 1995 15:59:11 GMT
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
:>In article <3qtt35$gji@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
:>Glenn R. Howes <grhowes@students.wisc.edu> wrote:
:>>Then base it around OpenDoc which is extremely cross platform
:>>and will protect us from the code bloat of Microsoft and OLE.
:>>
:>More "standards"... I have to admit I have not even looked at
:>OpenDoc. Why should I? Without even knowing what it is, let me
:>take a guess: it is some new "standard" put forward by yet another
:>"consortium" of "major players" which is so complex that the only
:>way anyone could incorporate "compliance" with it into one's
:>applications would be by licensing proprietary libraries and
:>bloated development environments, and which, no matter how
:>portable it is said to be, will not come close to covering the
:>400+ platforms covered by C-Kermit, the code base for Macintosh
:>Kermit. And which probably requires megabytes of memory and disk,
:>etc etc. Maybe I'm jaded, but don't these "standards" pop up and
:>then fall by the wayside on a yearly basis? Am I the only one who
:>sees the entire software industry grinding to a halt as it chases
:>the holy grail of the latest self-proclaimed "standard" from
:>Microsoft, Apple, IBM, or various consortia that fill the trade
:>publications with glorious proclamations of future cooperation and
:>openness, only to melt away before anybody has noticed?
Whoa. I think we're talking OpenTransport here rather than
OpenDoc here.
OpenDoc is an object-oriented document system which has nothing
to do with data communications and is a consortium project
between Apple, IBM, Novell, etc.
OpenTransport is Apple's upcoming low-level data
communications/networking infrastructure with which Apple intends
to replace the existing Mac communications/networking
infrastructure in a couple of years and, as far as I'm aware, is
an Apple-only project.
--
Doug Dau Internet: dddau@acs.ucalgary.ca
University Computing Services Phone: 403-220-6217
University of Calgary Fax: 403-282-9199