Re: [colorforth] TCP State Engine

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>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:22:30 -0400
>From: Jonah Thomas <j2thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>  
>Subject: Re: [colorforth] TCP State Engine  
>To: colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>The point is, if you want a web browser you have to be 
compatible with 
>as much of the existing complexity as you want to browse.  
That isn't 
>going to be any 3-block solution.  You might get TCP in 3 
blocks, 
>maybe, but you aren't going to get much of a web browser 
that way.

Is this more floundering speculation, or did actually have 
something to say about TCP?

>
>If the messages you want to send and receive over TCP are 
your own 
>kind, then you can do it the way you want. 

I don't need TCP for that.

> It won't compete with web 
>browsers but it might be perfect for refrigerators and 
stoves and such 
>to communicate over the net. 

Right, Forth is not appropriate for anything but the most 
trivial applications.


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