Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:285 comp.misc:4320 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!datapg!sewilco From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.misc Subject: Re: New Ideas in BBSes (No BS!) Message-ID: <2626@datapg.MN.ORG> Date: 9 Dec 88 01:47:56 GMT References: <1217@cps3xx.UUCP> <12714@steinmetz.ge.com> <8083@dasys1.UUCP> <7095@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Followup-To: alt.bbs Distribution: na Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 37 In article <7095@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >In article <8083@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >>The last thing we need is yet another BBS. There are already too >>many of them out there. What we need is something more basic - a >>low level protocol on which anyone can define his/her OWN BBS. TCP/IP allows programs on one computer to talk to programs on another computer. Radio amateurs have been using PCs to run TCP/IP for a while (um.. KA9Q?). TCP/IP can run over a serial line via SLIP. Low level protocols exist. >... > 1) a method of multiplexing data streams (X.PC?) > and > 2) a text based windowing system with the equivalent of "block transmit". 1) Yes, please allow multiplexing data. For example, it would be nice to have an article index and file transmissions to go in one direction while email and file requests are flowing in the other direction. 2) Yes, sort of. A windowing system should not be part of the data transfer definition. The data transfer system should work with any data, as TCP/IP can. Windowing might be done by programs running on one or both machines which are using the data flow, but any windows should be dependent on the programs being used. `inews` doesn't care what the screen of `rn` or `vnews` looks. Then there's NNTP...for news over a network. And any text-only standards should be discouraged, especially when we're talking about using many machines which already have graphics hardware. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco I'm just reversing entropy while waiting for the Big Crunch.