On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Jan Coffey wrote:

> 
> --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > >I was not
> > > referencing anything we don't already know ~how~ to do, just stuff we
> > aren't
> > > doing that we do know how to do, or worse, have done.
> > As far as distributed concurrent networks go, I know some applications
> > where it is being employed because the applications are very
> > straightforward.  But, like AI, the ease of use for many problems has been
> > greatly overstated.
> 
> No Dan, it isn't being used. It is not anything at all like AI. The
> probelms have not even been stated. Why? becouse we've built these
> things. They exist, they just are not being used becouse no one will
> fund anything that is not http over port 80. And that is a bottle neck
> which keeps such architectures from working. Why won't they fund
> something that is not http over port 80?

Huh? Nothing butt http over port 80?  What are you talking about?  I'm 
using port 22 right this second, on a system owned by a friend who knows 
what the heck he's doing with it.

        Julia

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