Absolutely. We should come up with a smaller, faster, more efficient alternative to TCP/IP for forth. Why should Forth by dragged down by backward compatibility with big bloated systems? If you want TCP/IP, build an embedded gateway device that translates between the new FORTH networking protocol and TCP/IP. Use Linux as a "shim", and as ColorForth gets more popular, the need for such shims will go away because the ColorForth boxes will be able to communicate directly with each other, without the intermediary of a Linux shim box. Jonathan On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:33:19PM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote:
By extention, why don't we hide the ugly details of network protocals, by building colorForth on top of Linux. Why go through the trouble of developing a TCP/IP stack, and all the required network drivers. Doesn't Linux solve this problem? I think you be more comfortable with a linux-based forth, there are many of these in existence. You needn't convert colorForthers to your linux ways. Why are you wasting the time of those who would like a true colorForth operating system?
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