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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNET- or, Matt has done it again!
Message-ID: <8802092248.AA04303@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 88 22:48:49 GMT
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>   There is only one slight caveat. In moving from TCP to DNET 
>you are moving from a very standard protocol which runs on lots
>of different OSs to one which is 4.xbsd specific. On the other 
>hand you could probably move dnet to many different machines. 
>I think i may drop internet.device and move over to dnet (but am
>not sure yet). No matter what, DNET is quite a piece of work.
>Makes me wonder why i bought a C compiler!
>   Highly recommended for a test-drive at least!
>ron
>-- 
>ron (rminnich@udel.edu)

	Well, the implementation is currently AMIGA<->AMIGA, AMIGA<->4.2BSD,
	or 4.2BSD<->4.2BSD (the last one used mainly for testing).
	The protocol itself is arranged in two levels and not dependant on
	a particular machine.  The packet level assumes only that it has a
	full 256 character codes / byte to play around with and a decently
	asynchronous mechanism for Tx/Rx.  The multiplexing layer assumes the
	machine multitasks.  

	I've got about two dozen people testing it now (well, a dozen now, a
	dozen as soon as I distribute it to the USENET alpha testers).


				-Matt