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

[David Froble]

Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 10/5/2016 11:32 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>> Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
>>> TCP/IP services 10.5 will not be the same as Multinet, it is *based* on
>>> Multinet. Otherwise they could start shipping now.
>>
>> VSI TCP/IP 10.5 starts out as Multinet. VSI is going to integrate it more
>> with VMS itself (the way that HP TCP/IP is now), rebranding and so forth.
>> And speeding things up. The LAN people are busy with a new interface to
>> the LAN drivers which will make LANs much faster (a VMS weak point) and
>> VSI TCP/IP 10.5 will be using the interface.
> 
> VSI TCP/IP V10.5 will *not* be using VCI V2.0 (the new LAN interface); 
> VCI 2.0 won't be available until VMS V9.
> 

Ya know, I'm betting most of us pretty much figured that.  Not good to waste too 
much more time on the itanic ....

But I think I understand why you wanted to be very specific.

:-)