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

Michael C superseth369 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 14:59:27 EST 2021


On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 1:35:02 PM UTC-5, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> Hunter 
> ------ 
> Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/ 
> goath... at goatley.com http://hunter.goatley.com/

hey Hunter who developed Purveyor and is it still around to purchase?
How much effort would there be to bring it up to date?



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