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- From: rdew@ALW.NIH.GOV (Bob Dew)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: "slow networks"
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:57:36 GMT
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- > Simple things:
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- > Get EZmail onto the Andrew disk in place of vui.
- > Advertise cui as a testing program not a user program.
- > RIP OUT the message server, throw it away, and replace 1 meg of
- > impossible code with 100K of simple code that uses pop and/or nntp and
- > a unix filesystem.
-
- Certainly a principal design criteria, and perhaps the motivating
- impetuous behind ATK's development was its ability to work in a
- distributed fashion across different architectures, securely, within
- AFS. That's a tall order for off-the-shelf unix utilities to comply
- with, and that's a leading reason why ATK's interoperability with common
- unix communications systems is somewhat difficult.
-
- While many sites which use the ATK are not AFS participants, I think it
- would be a great disservice to ATK's incredibly rich design effort to
- bring its code down to the level of common client-server models, as
- would likely be the case if ATK's message server were replaced with
- something compatible with POP and nntp.
-
- A good vui replacement is "a consummation to be wished", but I don't
- think scrapping AFS support, if favor of a simple unix-like design, is
- the answer.
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- -Bob
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