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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Networking Amiga's
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 23:36:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  4 23:36:36 1987
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>Before everyone says, "I want this on a network hardware board", what about
>the software?
>
>In particular, all Amiga programs comunicate by messages. They give a
>START address and LENGTH. To a message port.
>
>What about mods to the message routines that will, when given a message
>port that corresponds to a networked machine, copy the memory TO THAT MACHINE,
>and give to a program over there?
>
>Presto! EVERY program instantly works over the network. NO modifications
>needed.

	Wrongo.  Many messages contain pointers to other segments of memory.
There is no way in h#ll your going to be able to make Exec's port system 
work over a network.

	In terms of software, it wouldn't be too difficult to write a DOS
device driver to handle a NFS.  You could even write one to handle 
TCP/IP by simply openning "NET:machine.port" or something like that.  Once
you have DOS hooks in for basic NFS,RPC, and TCP/IP (or whatever protocol
you use) , you can do almost anything.

				-Matt