Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 10:42:44 10/05/99
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On October 04, 1999 at 20:07:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 04, 1999 at 06:52:45, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>Hi fellows, what about a new protocol for the communication of chess moves? E.g. >>a TCP/IP based, that requires a net card and does not rely on the serial port. >> >>This is important for several reasons: >> >>- the auto232 is clearly showing its limitations; >>- serial ports are going to disappear. This is not imemdiate, but the USB will >>soon be the only option. And i gues that if the serial ports give problems, a >>USB to serial adapter could be even worse; >>- it could permit programs to play over the net, so that mathces could be played >>with machines in separate sites. >> >>The main problem I see with this is the fact that it could take some time for >>programmers to adopt it, but the set up of a task force today will permit to >>have the standard ready for the day USB will be the only way to connect a device >>to a PC. >I like the idea. Perhaps the Winboard protocol could be used as a basis (under >the transport) since it is already spelled out in detail. > Hi Dann, >Why not use ACE to abstract the whole thing, and then it will run on anything >under the sun from Linux to MVS to NT? yes! I had a similar about 20 months ago and asked some people what they thought about it. The feedback I got was not very encouraging, but I like the idea more than ever now that there are freely available and stable CORBA-implementations. See http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/cidleng.htm for the 'white-paper' I wrote. Frank >http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
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