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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- References: <4egqi0$pcf@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <38000105707108980944@BIRDLAND> <4f09l4$adi@redstone.interpath.net> <4f3rer$b4b@news.uni-c.dk> <DMIxBM.315@unx.sas.com> <4g7opk$avu@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 07:03:03 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
-
- In article <4g7opk$avu@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie) writes:
- > James Cooper (jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com) wrote:
- > : I-Net 225 is as backwards compatible with AS225r2 as we could make it,
- > : without sacrificing too much. At present, I only know of 2 things
- > : written for AS225r2 that don't work on I-Net 225 - one of them never
- > : released to the public, and the other we're tracking down with the
- > : author.
- >
- > : So... why not?
- >
- > I don't have a problem with I-Net 225 but it does put a crimp in the PD scene
- > in the short term, just about everything uses Ami-TCP and if it doesn't
- > requires bsdsocket.library which is not compatible with I-Net from what I
- > understand.
-
- There is a great deal of stuff out there for AS225/I-Net 225 in
- the "PD scene". There are even quite a few authors that write for
- AS225 and simply tell people to use the emulation library. Writing
- to a single interface is a big win.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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