From: stephen.heumann@gmail.com   
      
   On 2022-07-31 14:06:27 +0000, D Finnigan said:   
   > Did GNO not have a killer app? TCP/IP was the upcoming thing in the 1990s,   
   > and GNO never had a TCP until just recently, if I understand correctly.   
   > Derek Taubert's GS-TCP was never completed.   
      
   As far as I'm concerned, the value of GNO is mostly in having a   
   Unix-like environment on the GS, both in terms of the command-line   
   environment and programming interfaces.  A key part of that is also   
   that it integrates with the existing IIGS system, including running   
   ORCA languages and utilities (and up to one desktop application).  It's   
   an alternative environment that allows you to run that stuff while   
   providing more features and (in my experience) better stability than   
   the ORCA shell.   
      
   GS/TCP was never completed, or at least never released.  However,   
   TCP/IP is now available in GNO using MariGNOtti, Kelvin Sherlock's   
   Marinetti-to-GNO translation layer.  Of course, you could use Marinetti   
   directly and not rely on GNO, but GNO with MariGNOtti is the only setup   
   that provides a sockets API on the IIGS.  That could be quite useful   
   for porting code from other platforms.   
      
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   Stephen Heumann   
      
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