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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <8611@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 9 Jun 91 04:01:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu>
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In article <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>The Amiga has all of the technical stuff to support networks, yes,
>but no actual applications geared toward networking.

	If networking is done right, applications don't NEED to be "geared
toward" it in any explicit way.  That's the beauty of TRANSPARENT networking.

	In UNIX, for example, files are often shared between machines
using software called NFS.  No applications need to be aware of NFS --
they JUST USE THE FILES, not knowing (nor caring) whether they actually
exist on the local disk or not!

	NFS exists on the Amiga *now*.  Install it, and ALL of your
applications will be able to use files on remote disks transparently.

	More examples on request.

                                                        Dan

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