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Protocols, Clients, and Message Systems
Protocols, Clients, and Message (BBS) Systems sometimes are confused.
WINMOR is a protocol. A formal and documented way to send bits error free (after ARQ) to another station. It is like Pactor, Packet etc. There are other protocols too but unless they are ARQ they can't insure error free transmission. The WINMOR TNC is a program that runs on a PC that with a sound card implements the WINMOR Protocol.
A radio client or server program is one that uses a TNC (or a virtual TNC as the WINMOR TNC above) to implement a radio client or server. Examples are AirMail, RMS Express, Paclink, RMS WINMOR and several others. You can think of them as the radio equivalent to your home email program. Clients initiate the connection. Servers accept the connection.
A BBS system is what ties all the Radio Servers and Clients (and sometimes internet) together for the purpose of exchanging messages etc. Examples are WINLINK, BPQ32, PSKMail and others. These have software (hidden to the user) that stores, organizes and forwards messages and user accounts.
So as you can see WINMOR (as a protocol) could be used in many applications just as Pactor. In fact the motivation for WINMOR was to provide a lower cost of entry to HF ARQ modes. Its faster than P1 and can approach P2/P3 but is much lower in cost. WINMOR could be used in any Client or Server program that is willing to write a driver for it (like a TNC driver) and there are several now available.
(Edited version of a message posted by Rick Muething, KN6KB)
WINMOR is a protocol. A formal and documented way to send bits error free (after ARQ) to another station. It is like Pactor, Packet etc. There are other protocols too but unless they are ARQ they can't insure error free transmission. The WINMOR TNC is a program that runs on a PC that with a sound card implements the WINMOR Protocol.
A radio client or server program is one that uses a TNC (or a virtual TNC as the WINMOR TNC above) to implement a radio client or server. Examples are AirMail, RMS Express, Paclink, RMS WINMOR and several others. You can think of them as the radio equivalent to your home email program. Clients initiate the connection. Servers accept the connection.
A BBS system is what ties all the Radio Servers and Clients (and sometimes internet) together for the purpose of exchanging messages etc. Examples are WINLINK, BPQ32, PSKMail and others. These have software (hidden to the user) that stores, organizes and forwards messages and user accounts.
So as you can see WINMOR (as a protocol) could be used in many applications just as Pactor. In fact the motivation for WINMOR was to provide a lower cost of entry to HF ARQ modes. Its faster than P1 and can approach P2/P3 but is much lower in cost. WINMOR could be used in any Client or Server program that is willing to write a driver for it (like a TNC driver) and there are several now available.
(Edited version of a message posted by Rick Muething, KN6KB)
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