From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] telnet From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:04:14 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69f8c76e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>as link speed went up, so it was considered not worth it. network characteristics are not all tending towards unformly high link speeds with uniformly low error rate, and the need to conserve power can be important as well. i think it's also interesting having a connection protocol oriented towards rpc (-ish) interactions not varying undelimited byte streams. there probably are other candidates but the code is already there for this one. on small devices i sometimes ditch tcp completely in favour of il and/or other things.