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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Can One API Support Both TCP/IP and LU 6.2?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 19:45:21 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Do TCP/IP and and IBM's LU 6.2 share enough in common as
peer-to-peer protocols that it would be possible to build a single
API on top of both?  I have heard some discussion that IBM's
Common Programming Interface - Communications (CPI-C) might evolve
into such an approach.  Obviously one impediment to a common API
is that the two protocols use different naming systems, but
assuming you could bridge that difference are the protocols - as
protocols only - semantically and syntactically similar enough
that one could build a generic model that bridges the two?

Thanks,
Will Estes        (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)