Re: [Hamlib-stationserver] Sharing a radio between multiple applications

[Art B. <ac...@in...>]

True that!  It's somewhat easier on the network, as network interfaces tend to support messages/events better than the internal APIs of many languages and OSs

- Art

On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Tony Langdon <vk...@gm...> wrote:

> On 5/03/2014 7:33 AM, Art Botterell wrote:
>> Got it... multiple simultaneous clients for control, content or both.  I'll add that.
> Yep.  The current situation with rig control brings back nasty memories 
> of DOS networking, and attempting to use the same network interface from 
> multiple applications simultaneously (under DESQview).  And even with 
> the shim that was supposed to make it work, it was about as stable as a 
> house of cards in a hurricane. :) Also brings back memories of Wordstar 
> and Word Perfect in DOS, where the application had to have its own 
> driver for the printer (like today's control applications have to 
> support the radio, rather than using an abstraction).
> 
> Upgrading to OS/2 20 years ago, and later Linux and Windows was a breath 
> of fresh air, on this front (though Windows had many other issues that 
> took longer to be addressed).
> 
> -- 
> 73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL
> http://vkradio.com
> 
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