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From: ngorelic@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dnet and HP-UX?
Message-ID: <2255@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 15:41:07 GMT
References: <2807@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <6080013@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
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In article <6080013@hpcupt1.HP.COM> pdg@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Paul Gootherts) writes:
That I wrote:
>>	Can't be done without MAJOR code revisions.  Dnet uses sockets,
>>	and there is no such thing on HP-UX.
>
>The HP 9000 Series 800 (HP-PA-based) has had sockets since first release
>in 1987.  I don't know how long the HP 9000 Series 300 (68K-based) has
>had sockets, but it's been a while.  I don't believe the HP 9000 Series
>500 ever got sockets.
>
	Ah, the problems with generalizations...  Allow me to rephrase:
I tried to compile Dnet on our HP9000 Ser. 500.  It gaged and barfed severly,
and told me that it had absolutly no idea what a socket was.

That better?


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