I think using IP (UTP mostly) for communication between major functions would provide an amazing amount of flexibility.
If using a single computer, then all the communications for major function groups would be via a loopback address(es). But by modify an IP table, function could be divided between different systems and even split between various operating systems. All with open standards and therefore operating system independent. Dan, kb0ppm Jim Lux wrote: > Quoting Brian Kassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed 12 Dec 2007 07:47:56 AM PST: > > >> Jim et AL: >> >> Thanks for your in depth comments. To me, any interface that works >> and is easy to implement would be acceptable. As you may know, many >> programmers for Ham Radio applications are what might be called "Hobby >> Level" types, and use languages like Visual Basic 6 or VB.NET. If the >> interface decided upon can be used with those languages, then I for one >> am all for the idea. >> > > Almost all of the schemes can work with those languages. Either the > interface style is supported natively (e.g. DDE in VB) or a simple > wrapper can be created to expose the different style of interface (for > instance, you could create a C/VB library that provides API style > entry points that send and receive messages underneath). > > Sending and receiving packets with TCP/IP or UDP/IP is very, very > simple (especially with UDP). Check out the "sockets" libraries > (there's about 6 function calls you need.. open, close, send, receive, > etc.) > > There are other message passing architectures around.. e.g. you can > work at a higher level.. HTTP, for instance, which is what SOAP uses. > Or, you can use something like MPI (which is more oriented to parallel > computing) > > Jim, W6RMK > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
