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From: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: RPC Technologies
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Date: 20 Aug 90 20:03:00 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.203329.13458@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Aug13.203329.13458@athena.mit.edu>, pae@athena.mit.edu
(Philip Earnhardt) writes:
|> The Network Computer Architecture Book (describing NCS 1.x implementations)
|> gives "suggested times" for timer implementations.  For your current
products,
|> how do retransmission timers work?  Specifically, do NCS 1.x implementations
|> on top of UDP/IP have a fixed retransmission timer or do they employ
some sort
|> of adaptive algorighm?

The former.  As I said, this is a deficiency that's being corrected.

                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Cooperative Object Computing Operation
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
                       mishkin@apollo.hp.com