Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!louie From: louie@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: MAC compatibles and UNIX Message-ID: <262@umd5.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 15:17:16 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.262 Posted: Sun Dec 9 15:17:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 04:47:10 EST References: <142@cadtroy.UUCP> <258@umd5.UUCP> <4740@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: louie@umd5s Mamakos.UUCP (Louis Mamakos) Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 20 Summary: In article <4740@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> ... I wouldn't consider a box like that in a University environment >> unless it had a *real* ability to do high-speed networking to the rest of >> the computers here on campus, and that means 4.2BSD right now. > >Contrary to popular misconception, "4.2BSD" and "TCP/IP" are not synonymous. >It is quite possible to have the latter without the former. To clairify my remarks about 4.2BSD; I was only pointing out that the only widely available UNIX-like operating system that supports TCP/IP is 4.2BSD, and that there is no support in System V. As a co-author of a TCP/IP implementation for a Sperry system, I'm painfully aware that TCP/IP and 4.2 are not synonymous. Louis A. Mamakos Computer Science Center - Systems Programming University of Maryland, College Park Internet: louie@umd5.arpa UUCP: ..!seismo!cvl!umd5!louie