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From: bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Hwa Jin Bae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Praise for Excelan's response to my merge/386 problems
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Date: 5 Mar 88 03:09:46 GMT
References: <22011@tis.llnl.gov> <1083@vsedev.VSE.COM>
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In article <1083@vsedev.VSE.COM> ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) writes:
>In article <22011@tis.llnl.gov> bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov () writes:
>>
>>Still, I think they could have done better job with socket library calls.
>>
>Actually they ARE Berkeley Sockets, they just happen to be 4.1c BSD
>Sockets, NOT 4.[23] BSD Sockets as you are familiar with.

Yeah, I understand that.  But they advertise that their sockets are
4.2[3] BSD compatible!!!  I have also been told so by the sale people
before I purchased it.  I wouldn't mind if they made it clear that
their software will require modifications of most of 4.2 based
networking codes like SUN's RPC, X server IPC part, sendmail, etc.

I'm simply saying that if they charge so much $$$, they could have
done a better job.  and if they chose not to do so, they should
inform the customers of such fact before purchase.

Hwa Jin Bae
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