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

[Scott Dorsey]

Dirk Munk  <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think we have to accept that the rest of the world selected
>>> TCPIP for networking.
>>
>> And, that being the case, we need to have the same features that
>> people
>> have liked with DECNET (such as the remote save sets) available with > IP.
>
>YOU ALREADY HAVE THOSE FEATURES !!!!! IT IS CALLED DECNET OVER IP !!!!!
>
>Why on earth would any one try to invent something that is already 
>there, that is plain silly. No other OS could use those features.

There's the problem right there.  "No other OS could use those features."

Maybe I want to put my remote saveset on a Solaris machine.  Maybe I
want to put it on a disk appliance.  We live in a world where we need
to coexist.
--scott


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