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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
Date: 26 Jul 1994 22:06:51 -0500
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In article <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu>,
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.

Lachman's TCP, also for System V, *is* based on Berkeley TCP... which is
really surprising considering how broken it is. It's all the Streams
spam that's responsible, of course.