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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12333 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3187 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.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Date: 13 Aug 1994 19:23:33 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32jo65$bf5@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <RSANDERS.94Aug9003813@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <32acqn$ghb@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <CuBzq9.BMx@calcite.rhyolite.com> <32d9fu$fbi@ra.nrl.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <32d9fu$fbi@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, Craig Metz <cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: >In article <CuBzq9.BMx@calcite.rhyolite.com>, >Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >>Have I looked at Linux? no. >>Have I looked at the U.Guelph NFS code? yes. >>Have I looked at other NFS code? yes. For example, I worked on the first por >> of NFS to SVR3 as a Lachman employee in Bob Lyon's group at Sun. > Oh, I could tell stories about how much sorrow LAI products have >brought me... Me too, but in fairness to LAI they *did* have to work within the Streams environment. Other TCP implementations that I've worked with (Excelan, Mesa, Whoever did the Unisys 1100 one) have been no better and generally less complete. > Linux is compatible, not a clone. A clone is made to work exactly >the same as the original. A compatible is made to appear to work exactly >the same as the original. There is a subtle, but extremely important, >difference. It's not what it does, it's how it does it, that is different. Um, I would say then that Linux is a clone and Eunice is a compatible. (as an aside, BSD started out as a student work, too. At least when I was at Berkely in '80 all the cool kernel hackers were students, still. Ken Arnold (curses) was even an undergrad.)