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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] SYSV & TCP/IP on the VAX...
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:25:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D000973-4335-4060-BE7E-84006251BB7B@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090526234802.GD3873@bitmover.com>


 >I think Lachman (where I was working at the
> time) did a lot of streams based TCP/IP, they may have done one for
> the vax.

Pre-SVR4 it was pretty much Lachman and Wollongong addons for pure  
SYSV releases.

> But why would you want it?  It was a steaming pile of sh*t.

Amen! It's a bloody miracle the Lachman code worked at all (on the 3B2  
at least). The Wollongong code was better. But both faithfully  
reproduced all the original BSD libc bugs. 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26 23:45 Jason Stevens
2009-05-26 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-26 23:57   ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-26 23:59     ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-27  0:10       ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-27  3:06         ` John Cowan
2009-05-27  3:35           ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-27  4:05             ` M. Warner Losh
2009-05-27  0:32       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-05-27  1:06       ` Corey Lindsly
2009-05-27  4:36         ` Gregg C Levine
2009-05-27  0:25   ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2009-05-27 17:39 Brian S Walden
2009-05-27 18:20 ` Larry McVoy

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