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- Message-ID: <NODMGT-L%93012117463766@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nodmgt-l
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:39:13 +0100
- Sender: Node Management <NODMGT-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: _possible_ death of BITNET
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 21 Jan 1993 16:08:48 -0500 from Node Management <NODMGT-L@UGA>
- Lines: 33
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- On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:08:48 -0500 GATEH@CONNCOLL said:
-
- >By "desktop" I was referring to neither unix nor VMS, but to
- >microcomputers, my apologies for ambiguity. I was attempting to point
- >out that while TCP/IP runs on micros fairly well, and as such brings
- >Internet services directly to my desktop, RSCS does not.
-
- This is only true with the assumption that the services you want are
- Internet services, or at least services with the Internet philosophy.
- RSCS clearly won't bring these services to your desktop, but it will
- bring them to department computers, large and small, to which your PC can
- easily talk. Besides which, it takes a pretty serious PC to get a good
- Internet service. If you're going for low cost, putting a full suite of
- Internet services on each and every PC on campus may not be a good deal
- at all.
-
- >Not being a networking programmer, I have no intimate knowledge of
- >either protocol, however observation would lead me to think that the
- >consensus of thousands of programmers and professionals around the nets
- >can't be too far off the mark.
-
- Yeah, and that is exactly how MS-DOS and the 8086 became what they are
- today. There may be 50M people running MS-DOS, but would you jump to the
- conclusion that so many people can't possibly be wrong and thus MS-DOS
- must be technologically superior, and things not for MS-DOS should be
- phased out?
-
- >I see a fairly high level of self-motivated programming and development
- >on the Internet, and I don't see that on BITNET.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Eric
-