Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UNIX System V Release n Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 Multics complexity kludge Message-ID: <683@auspex.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 88 05:53:02 GMT References: <422@ubbpc.UUCP> <9089@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10968@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <654@auspex.UUCP> <10983@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 6 >Well, it will be an improvement once you try to add the greatest, latest >communication protocol (OSI or whatever) and you realize that you don't >need new system calls !! No, instead you need new messages, or some other new functionality, in the TPI interface. (Can you say "urgent pointer"?)