16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
9:39 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
In the 1980's a lot of protocols were binary, and
designed for use over slow serial links. Nowadays, it seems like new protocols are mostly
text-based and descended from HTTP or other Internet RFC's.
With as a result that sender apps are wasting their
time by converting internal binary data to <whatever
bloated format>, and receivers by doing the inverse
operation... :-]
Ciao
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