Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!martin
From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Letter to Commodore
Message-ID: <22553@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:49:52 GMT
References: <177458@netw23.uucp> <22335@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun14.081836.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 39

In article <1991Jun14.081836.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> kent@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <22335@cbmvax.commodore.com>, chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS) writes:
>> 
>>>     Networking is a biggie.  I've heard, in one of the Amiga magazies, that
>>>Commodore is developing the Standard Amiga Networking Architecture (SANA). I
>>>think that they should, instead, call it Standard Amiga Networking Environment
>>>(SANE).  It can be marketed as "The computer for the SANE mind."
>> 
>> 
>
>I hope not, Amiga needs to push the TCP/IP and novell cards they already
>produce for the Amiga.  This is no time to come up with another new 
>"standard".

SANA2 defines a standard interface to networking device drivers.  This
allows multiple protocols to share networking cards.  It also allows
vendors to design new cards, write a SANA2 driver, then expect it
to work with existing network software.  It is similar (in concept)
to the PC packet driver standard.

TCP/IP and Novell are protocols that may run on several different
media.  They normally talk to some kind of ethernet or arcnet device
driver, which can be proprietary or SANA2.

Defining networking standards is exactly what Commodore needs to do.
Networking is just too complex to expect any one company to write
all the software and design all the hardware to solve everyone's
connectivity needs.


>
>-- 
>
>Mike Kent -  	Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC
>		2400 NASA Rd One, Houston, TX 77058 (713) 483-3791
>		KENT@vf.jsc.nasa.gov

Martin Hunt                                martin@cbmvax.commodore.com  
Commodore-Amiga Networking,                Siberia office