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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:07:32 -0500
- Sender: Node Management <NODMGT-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: GATEH@CONNCOLL.BITNET
- Subject: Re: _possible_ death of BITNET
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- > >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?
-
- Point well taken. Unfortunately, at a small school like ours, with
- no academic programming staff, we must more or less follow. That's
- why we have hundreds of MS-DOS machines on campus, and are now
- looking at implementing the client/server TCP/IP-based software
- available via the Internet.
-
- Unfortunately we don't have the resources to contribute to software
- development on either BITNET or the Internet. About the best we can
- do is implement services as best we can on both, and then offer
- access to those services back to the nets. While I can setup a
- gopher server fairly easily (at least technically speaking), I can't
- setup LISTSERV, even tho I've had numerous requests from folks
- here. LISTSERV is possibly the finest single service on BITNET, but
- unfortunately it won't run on my unix box. I don't know enough
- about the history of BITNET to know what drives development on VAX
- and IBM machines, but whatever it was/is, it's missing from the unix
- part of the community. Perhaps this is something CREN should look
- into as one element of keeping the net together.
-
- > >I see a fairly high level of self-motivated programming and development
- > >on the Internet, and I don't see that on BITNET.
- >
- > Thanks.
-
- My sincere apologies, Eric, for not noting the clear exception of
- your work. If only that level of motivation, skill, and attention
- to quality had gone into, oh, say, UREP... Jim Jones and I have
- mused in personal communication what effect that might have had on
- the net as a whole.
-
- Cheers - Gregg
-
- Gregg TeHennepe | Comp & Info Services | Internet: gateh@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu
- Post/Hostmaster | Connecticut College | BITNET/CREN: gateh@conncoll
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