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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>
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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.
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