Re: IIGS specific graphics web browser for IIGS specific web sites!

[toh@victoria.tc.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith) said:

>any/all work on Marinetti because of someone on CSA2.  <sigh>  that's
>a shame, because the one feature that would have been icing on the
>cake would be support for Microsoft's PROPRITARY flavor of the PPP
>protocol....  8\

If you mean the name server negotiation stuff, it's not proprietary - it's
just a protocol layering violation, and was repeatedly rejected by the
standards committee for that reason, as well as the utter cluelessness of the
Microsoftians in their proposal for it. M$ just doesn't get standards
processes, or well-designed network protocols for that matter. There is a
right way to get name server addresses (and a lot of other config) over a
newly-established PPP link, but that's not it. Unfortunately, the right
way isn't complete yet, so a lot of vendors (including Apple on Macs) have
jumped on that bandwagon, which slightly reduces the long-term technical
viability of PPP.

If you mean the weird version of CHAP that NT servers use by default, it's
again not proprietary, although there are many and sufficient other reasons
not to use it.

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Marc Sira                  |
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