🚀 go-pugleaf

I have tried to use NXHost over SLIP.  It is unusable at 19.2kbps.  There  
seemed to be a lot of data going through, not just a lot of packets, so I  
don't think CSLIP would have helped much.  X11 over SLIP flies by  
comparison.  It takes about a minute for even a simple window to come up.   
Forget trying to use an inspector.  I once tried to change the version  
number in the Info panel of a program using IB over SLIP.  It was so slow  
I didn't succeed.

If you still want to do it, the key is to realize that the Mach network  
IPC mechanism NXHost seems to use doesn't seem to know about any network  
interfaces besides the ethernet.  So if you don't configure the ethernet  
at boot time, the netmsgserver doesn't think there's a network to use.
But if you have SLIP working with the same IP addresses for the ethernet  
and the slip interfaces, NXHost works.  It's just that it's probably  
faster to FTP the executable and run it locally.  NXHost over SLIP works  
so badly that there must have been an intentional decision to make it very  
hard to even try.
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Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu   ABD   Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA
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Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu   ABD   Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA