Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: Sockets for a STREAM machine Message-ID: <151467@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 16:55:38 GMT References: <25643@hydra.gatech.EDU> Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 11 In article <25643@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl) writes: >Anyone know why PTX excluded a socket library? Because SVR3 doesn't have a socket library. That means Sequent has to acquire one from somewhere else, or write it themselves; either way, some decisions have to be made about how to integrate and some engineering has to be done. Given that the lack of System V was a major headache for Unisys, I'd bet they were sufficiently anxious to have a real SVR3 that they weren't about to hold it up for a non-standard socket library.