Christopher Smith wrote:
- The number of states is all that matters, not the complexity of the state transitions. So, for example, a protocol with 40 states, but only one state transition possible between each state, would be more tightly coupled than anything that has been talked about in this thread?
I know of no protocol that would work with 1 transition per state (that's a counter). All protocols I know of have a minimum of *2* transitions per state. Generally, transition 1 is "stay put" and transition 2 is "move to new state".
As such: two intercommunicating 40-state machines operating on two different computers will be *WAY* more coupled than something like TCP/IP without simplifying mechanisms (ie. make sure that one machine can never get more than 1 state ahead of the other or something like that).
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