Hello mark,

On Friday February 27 2015 03:24, you wrote to me:

 ml> when i realized that BSO stuff was more primitive than frontdoor, i
 ml> laughed heartily and backed off from it a bit instead of continuing to
 ml> work to hybridize my system with both as i was doing...

Yesterday I had the opportinity to make a short test rive with an electric
motorcycle. Two actually. A BMW and a Zero. Theyr were both fully electic.
Which means no pistons, no valves, no cam shaft, no gear box, no complicated
cooling system, no spark plugs, no carburettors, no starter engine, no dynamo,
nothing of all the hundred or so parts that are in the drive system of a modern
motor cycle. Just an electromotor and a belt to drive the real wheel.

One could call that primitive. But one could also call it simple. Dropping all
those precision mechanical parts makes it much less failure prone and
mantenance critical.

When I look at BSO through the glasses of how a Fido over IP system can operate
in the 21st century, I prefer to call it simple. And especially the trimmed
down version of BSO that is implemented in Binkd. It is even more simple. It
has dumped lots of the complicated stuff that was in Frontdoor and its clones
that are no longer needed,

KISS.



Cheers, Michiel

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