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From: JBVB@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("James B. VanBokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Need TCP/IP on RSTS/E
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Date: 5 Jan 88 00:41:09 GMT
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    ....  If you have a C compiler, it might be worth trying to compile
    the  PC/IP programs on your PDP-11.

All fine, except that PC-IP is 1) dependent on an 18 ticks/sec clock in a
lot of places 2) very 808x-dependent in the tasking, timer and display
modules and 3) has a built-in hardware driver which would need a complete
re-write for another interface/architecture.  The problem with RSTS is
that DEC has never done anything to ease user-written device drivers,
and there was nothing like the VMS XE driver to allow user programs to
get at the raw ethernet the last I knew.  It would be a good place to
start, but it won't be a short job.

jbvb