Re: A89: TCML Proposal

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Subject: Re: A89: TCML Proposal
From: Nathan Mueller <nlmueller@students.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:20:14 -0600
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>Yeah really, you dont have to support every tag, just support <BR>. Stop
>talking about this new format until you can actually create a TCP/IP
>interface. Personally, I think that is a dumb idea.. slow and inefficient.
>Do you even know how the IP packets work? I doubt it. The better alternative
>would be to dial into your computer, and your computer would be the server.
>You would need two modems for that... but I'd like to see error correcting
>IP checking etc..etc.. on the calc. Hell, it would take all the calculators
>memory just to establish that kind of driver.. and it would be
>sllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

I do know how IP packets work, I've been reading about it for the last two
weeks so I could write a connection program for the 89.  I think it would
be slow too, but hell, so is the internet.  As to the idea of connecting
through a computer, why don't you just use your computer?

	--Nate

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Re: A89: TCML Proposal

From: "Matt Johnson" <matt2000@dogtech.com>