Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 11:55:58 GMT References: <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu> <8611@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 34 In article <8611@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: >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! > Amiga Networks should do this with any protocol, because it is natural and easy to do with the standard Amiga features. > 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. > I don't claim to know much about Unix, but doesn't X-Windows require a "server" running the actual application and a "client" which just does the user-interface? Do such servers talk to multiple clients without using the file system (meaning peer-to-peer via sockets)? If so, this is an example of an application geared toward networking beyond just file/print sharing. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************