Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!phorgan From: phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Supercomputer Experiment vs Amiga Message-ID: <34383@cup.portal.com> Date: 29 Sep 90 19:11:29 GMT References: <31879@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 25 |Anyway, the OSI is only a model. In practice, some of its |layers are comprised of (or maybe filched from) other standards |making orgaizations. For example, in the lower layers, it |uses the IEEE 802.x standards such as Ethernet (CSMA/CD), Token |Ring and Token Bus. | |In the upper layers there are standards left over from the |ARPAnet days i.e. TCP/IP. (ARPAnet is gone but not NSFnet !) | |TCP/IP essentially consists of FTP, Telnet and SMTP. All systems |that claim to have TCP-IP protocols have to offer these. So, |the AMiga Unix system will have these too. | |In addition there are other de facto networking standards such |as NFS (Network Filing System) which was pioneered by Sun. There is |also X window standard from MIT. AMiga Unix offers these too. | |So, I don't understand what the problem is about...... Furthermore, Amiga NOW supports all this, with mostly public domain stuff if desired, all of this. After you buy an ethernet card you can (if the card doesn't come with it), use public domain TCP/IP stuff. Patrick Horgan phorgan@cup.portal.com