Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: <1991Jun16.033642.16844@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 16 Jun 91 03:36:42 GMT References: <4264.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz| <43@ryptyde.UUCP| <243@touch.touch.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 35 In article <43@ryptyde.UUCP| dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: > 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 to make the *network* transparent to the apps. That's why NFS sucks canal water, for example, since programs that need to do locking or device access have to know about remote daemons like lockd... Reasonably transparent networks, like Intel's OpenNET, allow all special files to be properly accessed via the network. > 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. That's got nothing to do with networking... it's just an immediate benefit of a multitasking/multiuser environment. If programs have to be specially written to be network smart to support stuff like that, well that's a bug. A network should be as near to invisible as possible. The best research systems support heterogenous networks that are transparent to the point of allowing invisible process migration between CPUs. Transparent file access is just the tip of the iceberg. > Folks go thru hoops implementing 3rd-party networking > solutions on the PC, but they HAVE TO DO IT! Networking goes into the Amiga like a key into a lock. It is, after all, just more multitasking... (X.400? Ecch: gimme RFC822 any day) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"