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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
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Date: 10 Jun 91 14:07:57 GMT
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In article <43@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
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>I guess this is the standard mentality of Amiga owners who think the extent of
>networking is to make accessing files across a network transparent to apps.

  No, it's basically the mentality of Unix too. Unless you count remote
procedure calls.

>Ever heard of colaborative computing? Every tried it? There are no applications
>specifically for networking? There are several on the Mac! For instance, in
>a painting program, different users can be editing the same document and see
>each others changes immediately and be able to add their own. There are 

  Ever heard of confusion? I find this to be a silly idea. Multiusers
editing the same document spells confusion to me.
  My idea of networking is the Plan 9 operating system with compute-servers
and file-servers. RAM should also be shared (like AmigaNet) you should
also be able to call functions across the net and have return
values returned to you.

I'd say the majority of networking deals with file-sharing and
servers for special processes. Something like multiple users editing
the same document and having it updated in all apps is done easily
with file-notification. I still think(IMHO) it's a silly idea, and a waste
of net bandwidth (having packets constantly sent back and forth
for minor updates) but it's not hard to do with a file-notification
mechanism.

 In fact, most Amiga editors are already support multiple windows into
the same file with changes in each file immediately. It's merely
a simple matter of notifying when the file has changed and voila.



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