Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) | Date | 7 May 1999 07:00:25 +0200 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > were not compliant stopped us using the BSD stack although someone did > indeed do a BSD stack port to Linux (Matthias Urlich from memory). > Yep (except that you messed up my last name ;-) -- I also merged in something that resembled SVR2/3 Streams, on top of which I had an ISDN driver.
At that time, Linux' TCP still was unuseable (didn't even have fragment reassembly), and I got fed up with the nondebuggability of Apple'a A/UX, for which I had written the ISDN driver originally (and which had both Streams and BSD networking). So putting all of this together seemed the easiest way out. Of course, it was not a real solution for anybody else, but I didn't care about that at the time.
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