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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
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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
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