On Apr 30, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:

> Yes. DO between computers (over TCP) was never really supported on OS X,

It most certainly was supported, and useable on a LAN (and even on a WAN over 
VPN, did not try it in the wild).

> and has a number of security and reliability problems

True.

> that would make it a really bad idea for any real-world use.

For the right context (non-mission critical convenience functionality, for 
example on top of zero-conf service discovery) it was (is?) a useable solution.

Gerd


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