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From: kevinr@moe.Tandem.COM (Kevin J. Rowett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: Are Commercial TCPs Berkeley Code Or Custom?
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.010412.29326@tandem.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 01:04:12 GMT
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In article <1990Aug1.013502.25874@bellcore-2.bellcore.com>,
karn@envy.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes:
|> 
|> In article <9007272321.AA09325@asylum.sf.ca.us>, romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us
|> (John Romkey) writes:
|> |> Phil Karn rolled his own [TCP] in KA9Q (he'll correct
|> |> me if I'm wrong).
|> 
|> True. My TCP was written from scratch starting in late 1985. Its first

Not to mention the hundreds of AR people who've tested and improved Phil's
work over the last few years.  KA9Q TCP/IP can't be considered a contribution
by one person, although the orignator does write some very fine code!

N6RCE

|>I *strongly* agree that you can't write a good TCP in a vacuum.

>Phil