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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2878 comp.os.linux.misc:20487 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Date: 27 Jul 1994 22:00:55 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <316len$8p5@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <DHOLLAND.94Jul25171448@scws33.harvard.edu> <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu> <314j0b$dq9@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <314j0b$dq9@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: ] Benjamin Z. Goldsteen <benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu> wrote: ] >Linux is about the only UNIX-alike that doesn't base their TCP/IP code ] >on BSD's. ] ] Excelan's TCP for System V wasn't, that I could tell. ] ] And it was awful. I did a lot of work with Excellan on various things in my guise as programmer at Century Software back when I worked there (but I didn't inhale). Actually, the Excellan stuff was a Berkeley 4.1c socket library. It just happens that the Berkeley 4.1c socket library was awful. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.