[ColorForth] reinventing the internet?

[lysse@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Roger Ivie wrote:
> Most applications are more interested in ensuring that all of the data
> actually arrives at the destination. In a file transfer, you can't toss
> a chunk of the file just because it was lost in the network. In a
> video application, a data loss just means a short glitch in the
> picture.

That's certainly true. However, NFS uses UDP, at least on Linux (there
is experimental TCP/IP code, but I don't think it's really mature yet),
so there may be something there.

Of course if everything was sent in 1024-byte blocks... ;-)
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