Xah Lee's Unixism

[Brian Inglis]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:04:52 +0100 (BST) in alt.folklore.computers,
bhk at dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) wrote:

>On Tuesday, in article
>     <qsdrj0dl4qi558bopev159fg4m7rn6mfoq at 4ax.com>
>     Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid "Brian Inglis" wrote:
>
>> I was never aware that DEC offered TCP/IP. 
>
>You'll have seen my later post about "TCP/IP Services for Vax/VMS"
>(which, a niggle tells me, had a different name, either before or after).
>This was written by the Unix developers at DEC, and consequently was very
>kuldgy and astonishingly badly-documented (for those of us used to the
>high quality of VMS documentation).
>
>Did you never see a 
>    UCX>
>prompt?
>
>> Politics and not timing was why TCP/IP didn't get into VMS:
>> d|i|g|i|t|a|l backed the European horse that never ran as it fitted
>> better with their network hardware capabilities and DECnet plans.
>> It also meant they did not have to deal with those BBN guys that had
>> developed a competing OS and network. 
>> They had whole suites of products layered on top of DECnet that were
>> sold to European governments and contractors. 
>
>Can you say "Colour Book Software"? :-(

I thought it was "Colouring Book Networking" ;^>

>(Mind you, unattended file transfer running overnight beats FTP hands
>down.)

Until you measure the transfer rate. Reliable unattended FTP file
transfer is doable with some work (mainly due to FTP not always
returning useful error codes), and finishes much faster. 

-- 
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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