> On 15 Jul 2016, at 14:41, Richard Loken <rllo...@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 Huw Davies | e-mail: huw.dav...@kerberos.davies.net.au Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"