Re: Review of thinosi cookbook

Andrew Worsley <@eden-valley.oz.au:amw@aaii.oz.au> Thu, 21 July 1994 21:01 UTC

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Cc: Allison J Mankin <mankin@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, thinosi@ulcc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Review of thinosi cookbook
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  A few minor pieces of info about OSIlite - 

> Allison,
> 
> There are two implementations directly inspired by thinosi - Terry
> Sullivan's TOSI, which was used as the protocol engine in the osilite
> (I think thats what he called it) implementation by Andrew Worsely
> (which used the same interface as ISODE and my XTI/mOSI prototype.
> These have not had a chance to communicate with each other yet.

  This is correct. Though most of the work was done by Vacation student
  (Robert Mueller) under my direction. 

> However, since the cookbook is essentially a greatly simplified
> redescription of the OSI upper-layers, a thinosi implementation will
> interwork with any osi implementation (when supporting the same
> application protocol - see the cookbook for an explanation).  The
> XTI/mOSI prototype interworks with the HP commercial osi product, and
> osi-lite has, I believe interworked with normal isode.

   It has.

   It is available from shark.mel.dit.csiro.au:/isode/thinosi-isode.tar.gz

	Andrew Worsley

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