On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:35:37 -0500, Jim Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED] PLATFORMS.COM> wrote:
> > My recollection was that it performed quite well. In mid 90's I did some >tweaking of the FTP client & Server (VS/Pascal, PL/X and assembler) to catch >up to and pass InterLink's FTP. I later made similar improvements to IBM's >newer FTP Server (written in C, PL/X and assembler). > > --snip--- > > It was my understanding the original VM TCPIP was largely based on >WISCNET's (Univ of Wisconsin) Pascal code (Vax?). > I'm with Jim on this. I was a contractor in the mid to late '90's and came across the early TCPIP stack, written in PASCAL and ported from VM. As I recall it performed OK, and had some quite advanced features like VIPA which was the subject of another recent thread. The Cisco man at the scottish bank I worked was quite impressed. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
