Does Marinetti work with GNO? A#8.3: Recently, Richard Bennett has released Marinetti, a beta-level TCP/IP stack for the IIgs that does not require GNO.
Experimentation with the Marinetti/GNO combination has been sketchy so far. However, here are some initial observations, in no particular order: – Running individual programs that rely on Marinetti seem to work the same way under GNO as they do without GNO. (However, see the following observations.) – Processes are unable to block while waiting for input. Therefore, they must do a “busy wait”. While this does not normally matter on the GS, it is considered to be Rude Behavior under GNO since it steals clock cycles that could be used by other processes. – It would be inadvisable to have Marinetti block a process that is waiting on input, since GNO is in a mutex state when accessing the ToolBox. Therefore, if Marinetti were to block a process, then all of GNO would be blocked. – Development on the Marinetti/GNO combination is still in the planning stage.
