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.
I think I recall credit given to Berkeley and bsd it the readable UCX
files in VAX/VMS Version 5 but all I have is an Alpha running OpenVMS 8.2
and those file don't contain any copyright or credit notices at all. They
start off with stuff like this:
/******************************************************************************
*************************************************/
/* Created: 18-NOV-1997 11:24:36 by OpenVMS SDL EV1-50 */
/* Source: 22-OCT-1996 00:33:26
DISK$UCX_BUILD2:[UCX.X42.BL21.SRC.NET]INET_USE
*/
/******************************************************************************
*************************************************/
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