Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Networking (Re: Supercomputer Experiment vs Amiga) Message-ID: <32783@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 8 Oct 90 18:38:42 GMT References: <6722@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: sam.ee.udel.edu In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >I also thought, but am not sure, that the lower levels of both protocols had >the ability to interconnect. Well, you can run the higher layers of OSI over the lower layers of TCP/IP, (and probably vica versa, but I haven't seen that since TCP/IP is much more common in the States than OSI), but that doesn't make them "talk" to each other. Things like FTP and Telnet are just plain different in OSI (much more flexible, but with the price of efficiency, of course). -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee -----