[Info-vax] [Change topic] Origins of Multinet
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Mon Jan 18 09:11:54 EST 2021
On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 1:09:53 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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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AND HERE IS AN IT PRO HACKING LIVE INTO A DOMINION SERVER IN FRONT OF A GA SENATE PANEL WHILE
PEOPLE ARE VOTING IN THE SENATE ELECTIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv9p7HK4aUY
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