Re: NCN: Project ideas

From: Joachim H. Steingrubner, PhD (jhs@PrimeNet.Com)
Date: Sun Mar 26 1995 - 20:47:13 PST


At 02:31 PM 3/26/95 -0800, Flemming Funch wrote:
[snipalot]
>If a few of you are interested in the practicalities of how we get this
>network to work, beyond the specific interest areas, that is needed. How do
>we create the maximum synergy from such a group, and the minimum clashes of
>viewpoints. What do we do if it gets really big. How do we create effective
>interaction between people who have e-mail and those who don't. How do we
>make the network fault-tolerant, having multiple paths of communication if
>one of them should fail. Alternate commununication methods, radio,
>video-conferencing, fido-net, carrier pigeons, telepathy, or whatever.
>
>Joachim, I'll volunteer you for this one, unless you protest. Anybody else?
>
  This is certainly a multi-brain effort.

  Gladly see that you're willing to take the lead here.
  On the other hand, I personally would wish to see you more as the
  PersonCo-guru :) .
  Btw, how is your all-new 'TRTROM' (the real TROM) going ?

  I got a 'ConCur-Teleporter' swishing around for over a week now
  on 4 architectures (HP,SCO,Linux,NT) and will expand to Mac/PowerPC
  and DEC/VMS the coming week.
  That's a program that is able to port itself and any application
  following its guidelines from one computer to another and it can
  execute concurrently on different machines and communicate within its own
  hierarchy network-wide, assigning a new 'leader' if the machine which
  carries the current 'coordinator' should fail.
  For example, if the 'boss' is on Linux and I shutdown the Linux box,
  the NT 'baby' assumes the role of the boss.

  Also, I'm still working on a dedicated Linux box (486/66 with 16M Byte
  RAM and 1GByte harddrive) which could be used as an NCN internet
  node (with web- and listserver, etc).

  I was going out to talk with some guys from the Civil Air Patrol at
  Whiteman Airport today. They have a shortwave computer network
  going there and I want to find out how they do it. The main hub there,
  it seems, don't laugh, is still an archaic TRS-80, if anybody should
  remember what that is. Didn't made it past a brand new Starduster II at
  Hangar 12, though, and had to hurry back because Wendy cooked a big dinner.
  That reminds me: who is going to do 'AirCo' or 'PlaneCo' ?

Joachim

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