#Network Workings
Off on a new thread… I'd like to talk about networks. I suspect there
has been some relevant discussions along these lines on Usenet, based on a
conversation I overheard at the NYC AmiEXPO. What would are good ways to
access machines and devices across the network? At the highest level, it
would be nice to decide which volumes could be shared between machines, at
the Workbench level. Clicking on that disk icon would bring up icons from
the other machine's volume, as if the disk were local. At another level,
what would be good ways to name the physical devices on another machine?
For example, how should you address DF0: on the machine across the room?
What about moving up and down directories on other machines, from file
requesters? What if someone removed that disk, which machine gets the
requester to "Please insert disk XXX"? What about strictly logical
assignments? Could you have "PPage:" located on another machine? What
about SER: and PAR: and PRT: on other machines? The general question is
"How would you like this to work?" more than "How could we program
this?"…