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From: pfrennin@altos86.Altos.COM (Peter Frenning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: TCP/IP on ISC and SCO UNIX V.3
Message-ID: <3413@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 90 00:51:56 GMT
References: <1230@dialogic.UUCP>
Reply-To: pfrennin@altos86.UUCP (Peter Frenning)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
Lines: 38

In article <1230@dialogic.UUCP> paul@dialogic.uucp (The Imaginative Moron aka Joey Pheromone) writes:
 >Can anyone elicidate the differences (if any) between ISC 386/ix
 >Host-Based TCP/IP and SCO UNIX V.3 TCP/IP ?
 >
 >I wish to use an RCP compiler tool from Netwise on a 386/ix system.
 >This compiler produces code for client/server stubs based on a
 >description of alibrary. The produced code uses Netwise's own network
 >library, which in turn, uses the native OS TCP/IP socket library.
 >
 >Currently, Netwise offer the product on SCO UNIX V.3. I am wondering
 >what work would be involved to get the generated code to run on ISC
 >UNIX. Since the CPU architecture is the same, and the only
 >incompatibility I can see is in syntax and semantics of the socket
 >libraries on the two OS's.
 >
 >Can anyone highlight the differences for me ? Even simple information
 >like "ISC is Wollongong, SCO's is XXXX" would be helpful.
 >
 >
 >Paul.
 >--
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ISC uses, or least did so prior to 2.2, their own home-grown TCP/IP, whereas
SCO uses Lachman (the basis for what's now in V.4 as well). The irony of it is
that ISC now owns Lachman and has done so for about a year. IMHO Lachman is
vastly superior to what ISC has(had?).

I guess that's what merger mania creates, strange bedfellows :-)  :-)

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