[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <nt5jfk$563$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> DECnet and OSI are dead.  They're not coming back.   If VSI spends any 
> effort here around DECnet, let it be to continue what DEC started and 
> continue to encourage folks to move off of DECnet, and to spend the 
> networking effort on the protocols and approaches and infrastructure 
> (VCI 2.0, etc) that VSI can enhance and improve and support and update. 
>   To move forward to what is expected of a modern operating system and 
> its integrated networking support.  A future which is not based on 
> DECnet nor on OSI, but on IPv6.

I pretty much agree, but almost everyone who has moved from DECnet to 
TCPIP on VMS has found the DEC/Compaq/HP TCPIP to be not a very good 
product, not even compared to unix implementations, which is a pretty 
low bar.  A proper TCPIP should be a high priority, and it looks like 
VSI is moving in this direction.

DECnet should remain, of course, but frozen like EDT.