[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] C-Cubed

[Chris Hawks]

---Reply to mail from Boisy G. Pitre about [Color Computer] Re:  [Coco] C-Cubed

> The network solution, if employed, would be significantly less  
> complicated than you presuppose.   Let's say, hypothetically, that I  
> reserve the domain name cococcompiler.com and reserve ports 10040 for  
> the compiler and 10041 for the optimizer.  Then within the  
> distributed comp and opt binaries, the actual compiler and optimizer  
> code would be stubbed out, and in its place would be code which would:
> 
> 1. connect to the respective port of cococcompiler.com
> 2. write the input file
> 3. read the output file
> 
> There would be no license server.  If you want, you could connect via  
> telnet and feed the code by hand.  It is simply a matter of relying  
> on the reliability of the compile server and of the person's own  
> internet connection.  That's it.

    Reminded me of the old saying...

REAL programmers use:

cat >a.out

8^)

---End reply

Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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