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Re: Software infrastructure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Newsham)
Tue Jun 1 18:46:19 1993

From: Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
To: jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 12:09:20 -1000 (HST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9306011816.AA10998@kolanut> from "Joe Thomas" at Jun 1, 93 02:16:21 pm

> I may be able to help out in a DOS project (though I seem to be migrating  
> quickly to Linux as it stabilizes...)  Perhaps the GPL'ed program term  
> would be useful in serial multiplexing applications.  It's quite nice for  
> Unix boxes, letting all kinds of streams coexist (even redirecting TCP/IP  
> ports over serial without the overhead of SLIP/PPP).  I believe I've  

on a similar note the DNET protocol for amiga is quite nice.  It comes
with a nice socket like library.  Works quite efficiently but contains
no information about addressing (it is strictly point to point so
it doesnt use any addressing).


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