On 15 Jul 2016, at 14:41, Richard Loken <rlloken at
telus.net> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Mouse wrote:
Personally, given the mess of MultiNet, TCP/IP Services, and TCPWare,
I wouldn't make that statement about networking *at all*.
If you think of "networking" as being "IP-based networking", yeah,
probably. But there's a lot more to networking than just IP.
Specifically, I was talking about DECnet, which was well done and
integrated from the ground up, not glued on after the fact.
And I don't get this notion about lifting the network code out of Tru64
since VAX/VMS had UCX (not my favourite network package) before the
Alpha and associated OSF/1, Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. The candidate
for lifting code would be Ultrix which got a lot of its heritage from
BSD4.X.
Let?s say UCX had some deficiencies (being polite) and was replaced with TCPIP Services
for OpenVMS. This TCP/IP stack was based on the code from Tru64 Unix (aka Digital Unix aka
OSF/1) and used what was known as the basket to map the OpenVMS API to Tru64 and vice
versa.
Disclaimer: I used to work for HP and was an OpenVMS Ambassador so might be slightly
biased
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