In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/28/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I heard a story, many aeons ago, that the original TCP/IP for
>ESA/OS390 was a direct port from VM, written in PASCAL. And, it was a
>PIG!
Correct, including simulation of VMCF, which in the VM world has been
obsolete for lo these many years.
>USS
Unix.
>This made it to OS/390 V2.5, I believe.
Correct. Alas, we were not allowed to convert off of TCP/IP V3R5,
which ran just fine at least through OS/390 V2R9.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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