On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:20:44 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Subject changed in response to Ed's bitter complaint. :-) ] >... >>I suspect the rewrite story is apocryphal. > >Possibly the details are. But it is a fact that IBM ported a >Pascal-based TCP/OP from VM to MVS, including a simulated VMCF. It is >also a fact that OS/390 2.5 shipped with a Unix-based TCP/IP. >... Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. In fact there are still some Pascal-based parts of TCP/IP as of 1.6. I just doubt the rewrite was done by 2 people over a weekend ... or even that the rewrite was designed by 2 people over one weekend. That was a BIG redesign. (Although that might explain some of the problems in 2.5.) Patrick O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
