[Info-vax] NETLIB V2.5 released for X86_64, AXP, and I64

[Chris Townley]

On 16/07/2023 01:20, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/14/2023 2:10 PM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
>> NETLIB is MadGoat Software's TCP/IP library routines. Software that 
>> uses NETLIB can run on any of the supported TCP/IP stacks on OpenVMS 
>> without having to worry about coding differences among the stacks. 
>> Products that use NETLIB include MX, HGFTP, and NBS. There are 
>> probably others, but I'm drawing a blank right now.
> 
> Wondering.
> 
> I remember back in the 90's where TCP/IP on VMS was a mess - many
> flavors (DEC, Multinet, TCPWare, Wollongong, CMU) - they were
> not fully compatible from a programming perspective (I remember
> seeing lots of ifdef's in C code). NETLIB seemed to make a lot of sense.
> 
> But I am wondering whether it is still like that today. Only 2 vendors
> with 3 products left. And I was sort of assuming that Multinet
> and TCPWare had gotten a goal to be fully HP/VSI compatible from
> a programming perspective and just focus on doing everything better.
> 
> Are there still compatibility problems writing code using socket API?
> 
> Are there still compatibility problems writing code using SYS$QIO(W)?
> 
> Or is NETLIB today more for those applications written against it
> back in time?
> 
> Arne

But will Multinet and/or TCPWare make it to X86?

-- 
Chris