[Info-vax] [Change topic] Origins of Multinet
Hunter Goatley
goathunter at goatley.com
Tue Jan 19 13:34:59 EST 2021
On 1/16/2021 12:09 PM, 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.
Yep! I remember now. Tru64 is what I meant, but my brain went blank. We
used to support PMDF on Tru64, but when we dropped that, I apparently
purged it completely from my brain. ;-)
Thanks.
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