[Info-vax] installing AACRT on VMS 5.5-2

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Wed Apr 1 16:55:01 EDT 2009


In article <49518cfa$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> UCX 5.0 was a port of DEC's Ultrix (Unix) TCP/IP package.  Earlier 
>> versions were based on a VAX/VMS port of the raw Berkeley code.
> 
> Ultrix - not OSF/1 ??

   DEC introduced its TCP/IP stack for VMS and its DECnet for ULTRIX
   at about the same time under the joint name ULTRIX Connection.  This
   was prior to Alpha, and prior to DEC choosing OSF/1 as the base for
   the UNIX to ship with Alpha.

   Thus the name UCX for the IP stack on VMS.




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