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Re: wouldn't it be nice if....

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From: David Moffatt
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 14:27
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In also had the same idea.  I am a computer science student at Indiana
Universtiy and one of the things we have to do is senior projects so 
 that is what doing.  So far the program look nothing like what you
described.  I doubt I will ever get anything that would be a useable
also.  But as far as I can see so far it is quit a simple matter to time
slice the serial line useing small packets and giveing priority to
keyboard input.  The way it works in my scheme you can download files in
the background but that is about it.

So far the biggest snafu I have had to deal with are the user commands
like remote dir.  This is not a hard problem it just requires a little 
more work than putting the files into packets.

I think when someone comes out with a good program to do this it will
quickly take the market by storm.  But the program has to easly ported
to mainframes and has to use a good scheme of prioritizing.  Also it
will be incompatable with present day stuff or maybe it could be made so
that it worked like a normal com. program until a special command was
gives to spawn additional windows? Oh well ... who knows what may
happen.
		Dave Moffatt 
		the hack who is not a geek.
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