Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Are UW? (was Re: A general Thanks) Summary: Ack! Client! Server! Scream! Keywords: client side Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 90 14:33:36 GMT References: <4818@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <-NXN9ficc@ficc.uu.net> <4820@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 Ok, to me the client is the guy running on the host. The server is the display. I finally got programmed with X/NeWS terminology. So, is it bass ackwards for UW? > What's PPP, or, for that matter, Godot? Are these other methods of > multiplexing a serial line? (Is this the dumbest question of the new year?) No, the dumbest question of the new year was me asking someone if an article originally posted to alt.flame (I think) was a forgery. PPP -- Point to Point Protocol. Sucessor to SLIP. Basically it's a space efficient way of packing TCP/IP traffic on a serial line so you can open Telnet and FTP and NNTP and whatever else sessions over a modem. Mucho cooler. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com