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Subject: Re: Networking Amiga's
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 11:48:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 11:48:10 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.
> 

Sorry, guy, it's not that easy.  How many folks fill in the message length
field when sending messages?  Are you trying to pass pointers to areas of
memory (i.e. "pass by reference" rather than "pass by value"), etc, etc.
Yes, the hooks are there, but the message server would have to know quite
a bit about the semantics of the message being passed..

						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook