In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/06/2005
at 01:10 PM, Jay Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>SNA assumes that the user is sitting in front of a dumb
>terminal and wants to use an application on a central machine.
No; SNA provided for smart terminals from the beginning.
>TCP/IP assumes that one user's terminal may be another's application host.
So did SNA, as of ACF.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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