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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2913 comp.os.linux.misc:20596 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) 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: 29 Jul 1994 21:37:47 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31cedr$sqr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu> <3163r7$440@quagga.ru.ac.za> <CtMnq1.C8@rex.uokhsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <CtMnq1.C8@rex.uokhsc.edu>, Benjamin Z. Goldsteen <benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu> wrote: >Unless I am mistaken, SVR4's networking consists of the Berkeley TCP/IP >code with STREAMS on top (with sockets emulated on STREAMS). There >were a few other attempts at TCP/IP, but they weren't too successful... >[I believe Peter de Silvia will back me up on this] Whoever he is. :-> I've used Mesa, Excelan, Lachman, and Micom Interlan. At least in that samples space they're all short of ideal. Lachman is definitely based on BSD. Excelan is supposed to be. Excelan did a great LAN Analyser (now sold by Novell, who bought Excelan to get it), but their protocol stack was really old. I don't know about Mesa, but their Xenix stack could only support a handful of connections. Interlan went through a dozen companies, don't know where they are now. That's my total sample space. I could easily have missed some. Anyway, overall I'm an agnostic on System V versus BSD. I've pissed off enough people in the BSD camp for daring to suggest that there's good stuff in System V. I think Linux is an incredibly neat hack, and it does a lot of nifty things to coexist with DOS, but that's not what I really want to do. I like BSD because it feels like real UNIX. Deep in its heart it feels more like the System V I'm used to than SCO does, for example. It feels more like OSF/1 than System V does. It works for me. But for Ritchie's sake, it's not worth having a war over. It doesn't work for some people. That's fine. ANYTHING to keep folks from falling into the clutches of Microsoft.