[Info-vax] tcpip

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> Easier said than done!  My first experience with TCP/IP was with version 
> 2.7 of UCX.  It didn't work where we most needed it!  Neither did v3.0, 
> V3.1, V3.2, nor V3.3.  V3.3 worked more or less as it was supposed to 
> but only after ECOs 1,2,3,4,....13 were applied.
> 
> The relationship between the software and the manuals was, to say the 
> least, strained!  One could almost call the documentation a work of 
> fiction!
> 
> DEC *finally* published a TCP/IP package that actually worked.  They 
> abandoned the VMS version and ported the UCX (Ultrix)  version to VMS. 
> ISTR that this was called V5.0.  It sort of worked most of the time.

All that shows how much DEC must have despised their customers.
No need to blame marketing for their demise,
the product speaks for itself.