[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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