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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: ProTERM info needed
Message-ID: <1991May16.005744.17637@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <1991May15.015851.21085@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <91135.105205R79QC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1991May15.215508.5296@nevada.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 00:57:44 GMT

In article <1991May15.215508.5296@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>In article <91135.105205R79QC@CUNYVM.BITNET> R79QC@CUNYVM.BITNET (William Katz) writes:
>>more improved protocols. I think the author should come out with a
>>version for the //gs to implement it's 16 bit power.

>What advantages would there be in that?  Telecomm isn't exactly the
>most processor-intensive computing task in the world.  When you're
>dealing exclusively with 8-bit data (or even 7-bit), what's the point
>in making a GS-specific telecomm program? 

What if you wanted to run a communications program off a server, as I
have done with a certain GS/OS communications' program, or if you wanted
to access volumes(CD-ROM's,partitions, tape,etc...) that were not accesible
to ProDos? It seems to me that a good GS/OS communications' program is 
needed, probably really needed.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto