[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Tue May 7 19:27:12 EDT 2019


On 5/7/2019 4:08 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> One of the problems is that TCP/IP came from Unix, and things in Unix
>> seem to be rather tied to C.  Thus, we have HP TCP/IP which really
>> doesn't fit in VMS and the VMS way.
>
> No.  Sockets came from Unix, but TCP/IP was very much designed without the
> Unix philosophy.
> --scott
>

I didn't follow it in the early days.

I'm curious, what were the first implementations of TCP/IP?

I know there was the CMU product.  Wollagong. (spelling?)  And others. 
All I can recall is that Unix used TCP/IP back in the day.

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