From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:58:31 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Code bloat In-Reply-To: <20170209163658.GO25691@mcvoy.com> References: <930c52a0c279cdd7d44953aa403a504a8622bb83@webmail.yaccman.com> <20170208025538.GE65698@eureka.lemis.com> <20170209163658.GO25691@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <090cfaa0-f2da-e16d-1e96-8776b8db4e45@gmail.com> Larry McVoy wrote: >> The best one seems to have been the 3Com stack, which puts IP in the >> kernel and TCP in a daemon. By the way, this implementation is also >> where SLIP seems to have originated. > As much as I love all the nostalgia, and as cool as SLIP was, if I never > have to experience the pain of trying to run TCP/IP over a modem again, > I'll be happy. For me, SLIP was just not worth it. Too much overhead > when bandwidth was too precious. A dial up terminal emulator was a > better answer in my experience. > > Don't get me wrong, SLIP was cool. Modems were slow. Back in the day when slip was just starting to get traction (and before PPP) I was happy with a dial-up connection to read news and work remotely and a 9600 baud telebit for UUCP file transfer to home for work that could be sent home and done off-line. Bill -- Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/