[Info-vax] [Change topic] Origins of Multinet

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-16 04:41:24 +0000, Hunter Goatley said:

> ...For a brief time around 1998, if memory serves, we also provided 
> support for UCX while Compaq was busy creating what would become the 
> first release of TCP/IP Services. That was done by porting the ULTRIX 
> stack, again, if memory serves.

The port was from BSD via DIGITAL Unix / Tru64 Unix / DEC OSF/1 — 
ULTRIX was deprecated by then — as maintaining one then-newer IP stack 
was then preferable to then-maintaining two diverging stacks.

There were both porting-related changes, and some changes to the 
OpenVMS kernel to allow easier re-porting. Centrally some updates to 
buffer memory management support, IIRC.

As for looking forward and not backward, I'm not expecting to see 
OpenFastPath (OFP) on OpenVMS, or ilk. Nor IP stack integration nor 
kernel TLS/DTLS within the next five years, either. ToE support... 
maybe.

But the whole discussion feels like premature optimization for an app 
that doesn't yet exist, likely won't, and that is going to be expensive 
to create and host on OpenVMS. And that'll be a high-profile target. Or 
apps and hosting for others worried about getting de-hosted, a fear of 
consequences for one's own activities which seems a fairly remarkable 
realization and concern for some folks here in the US. Not so much for 
other folks here in the US, of course. But I digress. For those 
concerned about being de-hosted from AWS, don't do what is alleged in 
the AWS filings or ilk, and you're not going to get tossed off AWS. 
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-warned-parler-for-months-about-more-than-100-violent-threats/ 
 Links to some of what allegedly happened here are in the linked 
filings available via Ars. As for Dominion-related activities mentioned 
earlier in the thread, here's a bunch of folks that have announced that 
they lied about Dominion voting systems: 
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html

Brandolini's Law is on full display around here, of course.


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