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- From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
- Subject: Re: Vic-20/C-64 serial ports
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- References: <4cn3ba$ifj@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> <4d3tbe$9eh@work.smurf.noris.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:41:51 GMT
-
- In article <4d3tbe$9eh@work.smurf.noris.de>,
- Matthias Urlichs <smurf@work.smurf.noris.de> wrote:
-
- [ ... ]
-
- >wrote your own file system, and after you found the one (out of five) BASIC
- >compilers which could process a nontrivial piece of software, you were able
- >to run a _decent_ BBS on the thing, as compared to the trillions (well, it
- >felt like that at the time) who didn't have a clue.
-
- [ ... ]
-
- >Those were the days. Now, if I wanted to, I'd redo the whole thing in HTTP
- >and CGI scripts, and wouldn't offer a textual login at all. Well, OK, for
- >new user registration ("Hello. This is The Foobar System. If you want in,
- >configure your system for PPP, tell it to accept the IP number we assign to
- >you, call again, and point your browser to http://10.20.30.40/newuser.
- >
- >If you don't know how to do that, ask your computer dealer; they should
- >know about this stuff by now.
-
- What about systems like my Sun SPARCstations? They already have
- perfectly good IP (and properly assigned) addresses of their own, and might
- not like being told that they have to route some packets to the IP address
- *your* system assigns them. (Of course, if you had a *real* net connection,
- and allowed access via that, the problem would go away.
-
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