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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
> In idle conversation the other day with someone who told me he used to
> use an implementation of KA9Q on something *other* than a PC, he
> mentioned that that version could make the TCP/IP stack available to
> other programs.  I *think* he said it was on the Amiga, which is why this
> is cross-posted to d.i.s.amiga.  
> 
> Is/was this true?  If so, was the interface to such use from other
> programs to some recognized (for the Amiga, I suppose) standard?

The Amiga port of KA9Q is called AmigaNOS. It's available from ftp.d.c.u
in pub/amiga/installer and is still the officially supported software
for Amiga users with Demon.

Having said that, I doubt that you'd find more than a handful of people
actually using it. The majority of us use AmiTCP, a much more flexible
BSD derived TCP/IP stack available in freeware and commercial versions,
actively supported with a great deal of client and server software
having been, and still being written for it. AmiTCP is really the Amiga
standard interface at present.

AmigaNOS in contrast, whilst it has its own API, is apparently nowhere
near as flexible as AmiTCP. There's been little or no development done
on it for some time. It's really just the software that new users use
because Demon provide it. As soon as they've worked out how to use
ftp they invariably download AmiTCP and NOS gets deleted from their
drives. AmiTCP has all the WWW browsers and GUI software that NOS lacks.

Phil
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Philip Stokes                                   phil@stokes.demon.co.uk
Hertfordshire
England