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From: JMS@ARIZMIS.BITNET (Ross Was Here)
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Subject: Re: SCUBA, disk fragmentation, and dialups
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 12:41:00 EDT
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Edu%"rod@Cheeta.ISI.Edu"  writes:

>    I'm considering the possibility of writing something that will
>allow a user who has a PC (or possibly an Amiga) to have multiple
>processes logged in over the same dialup line. It will also hopefully
>provide some error checking to handle phone line noise. Does such a
>beast already exist? Any advice?

You should look at the X.PC protocol specifications.  It provides
what you're looking for, and more (for example, simultaneous
terminal sessions and file transfers).  X.PC was an important idea
about four years ago, which has been largely ignored because of
the marketing efforts of Microcom, which is promoting their
MNP protocol as a competitor to X.PC (developed by Tymnet and available
from them), when they address separate issues.

X.PC implementations are available for the IBM-PC; I don't know
what others were finally done (although Tymnet probably did a DEC-10
version as well).

jms

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