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

[Michael Moroney]

David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

>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.

Yeah, I messed up, pushing up the schedule of the LAN people by a huge
amount like that. :-) But the point is, there will be big LAN performance
improvements coming, and VSI TCP/IP will benefit.