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- From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: XAcc protocol definition
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205804.19515@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <92356.104533HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:58:04 GMT
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- The biggest problem that I see with the XACC protocol is the requirement
- that data be passed in pointers; that's not a nice thing under MultiTOS,
- since it means that memory protection must be bypassed (with some care
- one can restrict the memory protection bypassing to a specific memory
- block, but I'm afraid that many programmers won't take this care). It
- also makes any kind of networking difficult, although admittedly that's
- a less serious concern at the moment since the AES doesn't support
- networking.
-
- In MultiTOS there will be a drag and drop protocol specified, using
- AES messages and MiNT pipes for communication.
-
- Regards,
- Eric
-