Re: [computer-go] how to use GTP in place of GMP

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

I think your observations are correct.   

I  keep forgetting  that  myself.   Windows users  think  in terms  of
packaging up  a product  that has everything  built into it  where the
user-interface  is the most  important piece.   But still,  Windows is
getting a lot better with communicating with other processes and other
computers.  I  think it's  time to  get real and  throw away  the null
modem cable and DOS code.

- Don




   On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:48:54PM +0100, Nick Wedd wrote:
   > 
   > Those who have advocated GTP as a replacement for GMP have missed the
   > point that it is a different-shaped animal. 

   I think we have a classical example of a culture clash here. Windows
   users assume that all computers have serial ports and will work together
   just by sticking a suitable cable between two computers. Unix users
   assume that all computers are part of a network, and any communications
   is easiest done using that network, using standard protocols.  

   In practice, both approaches require some additional tweaking (a serial
   port can be something else than what a Windows user expects, and require
   a crossed/non-crossed/whatever cable and flow-control in software,
   hardware, or something else, plus an agreement on speed, data bits,
   parity.... The network has to be there too, with given addresses, ports,
   cabling, and everything).

   Still, the GTP discussion *is* about two separate things: What the
   protocol says about the communications, and how that communication
   channel is to be established. 


   I tend to agree with those who say that the standard does not have to
   specify the channel, but that a tournament will have to specify that it
   is to use GTP, over TCP/IP, running on (say) a regular 100Mbit
   twisted-pair Ethernet etc, where the participating programs initiate the
   connection to a server at ...


   - Heikki
     glad I don't have to organize a tournament...




   -- 
   Heikki Levanto   "In Murphy We Turst"     heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk

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