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- Subject: Re: How do you use GEOS? How would you like to use v2?
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- From: harvey_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:33:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.135233.29700@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor) writes:
- >Maybe TCP/IP is a niche product, but if it runs under GEOS it should
- >be part of the OS, not a separate app. I'd like to see it as an
- >option in the Modem section of Preferences, along with the other means
- >for telecommunication. ("Lessee, do I want COM1, COM2, or TCP/IP?")
- >
- >If it's in the OS, then the people who write telecom programs for GEOS
- >could have automatic TCP/IP support without re-inventing that
- >particular wheel each time. Reusability is what an OOOS is all about,
- >no? We also wouldn't have the same trouble with competing standards
- >that currently plagues the DOS world. (I was happily using packet
- >drivers until I was told I had to run one particular app that supports
- >*only* NDIS. Sheesh!)
-
- I for one don't think it should be in the OS.. My idea is that all hardware
- interfacing of any sort should be handled by drivers, and that includes comms!
- In that way, you could choose from a list of drivers, same as you choose from a
- list of printers, a list of soundcards, or any other hardware interface. That
- way *any* comms package would have access to the comm ports, TCP/IP, aome of
- those fancy multi-port interface boards, and stuff on other types of networks,
- and any new type of comms that anyone may care to invent in the future....
- This way you would have a standard 'comms' object, ant the programs wouldnt
- know or care what they were actualy connected to.
-
- Of course this might create confusion with such things as dialing
- directories.... (ie do they contain telephone nos, or IP Nos...) I spose you
- could make them generic, so it wouldn't matter, but that might confuse the new
- user ( so what *does* go in the 'access code' section...? prehaps the aera
- code....no, oh well, ring tech support... :-) )
-
- comments anyone?
-
- >BTW, if your buddies at FTP are planning to write an X-server for
- >GEOS, I might buy a copy for myself. Running X-Windows on my little
-
- Xwindows could be neat, but from what I've seen it may require a touch more
- memory than the minimom GEOS system... But we shall see.... just a multi
- windowed multiplexing comms program would do me....
-
- | Adrian Harvey (Harvey_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)|
- | Windows? Just say NO! |
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