From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 21:42:22 MDT
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Harvey Newstrom
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:07 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: RE: Optimism [Was: flame wars]
you: Agreed! The myth I keep running into is the seven-layer model of
networking. It says that layers are abstracted independently of each
other so that the physical, data-link, network, transport, session,
presentation, application layers can all mix-and-match/plug-and-play/and
be vendor neutral. It sounds good in theory, but it isn't real. If it
were real, we should be able to run a Linux program displaying IBM
EBCDIC characters over an http web session via a non-TCP protocol on an
appletalk network running Microsoft netbios on an ATM link!
me: What *are* you talking about?
I'm current reading this over a Linux program displaying IBM EBCDIC
characters over an http web session
via a non-TCP protocol on an appletalk network running Microsoft
netbios on an ATM link!
Just kidding :)
omard-out
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