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From: map@GAAK.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael A. Patton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Need TCP/IP on RSTS/E
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Date: 5 Jan 88 07:39:33 GMT
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   Date: Mon,  4 Jan 88 19:41:09 EST
   From: "James B. VanBokkelen" <JBVB@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>

       ....  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 ...

You missed the point earlier in that message where the author said
that they thought it had originally been done on PDP11s.  That's
actually where the author went wrong.  The PCIP code was originally
designed for the MS-DOS environment and is therefore probably
completely unsuited to conversion to RSTS.  The MIT UNIX V6 code on
the other hand ... :-\

					... 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.
I heard rumors (shortly after you left the RSTS community James, and
shortly before I did) that such an interface was in the offing.  I
have not heard what came of that.