VMS TCP/IP?

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Thu Aug 29 11:04:00 2002

Thanks for the heads up Pat....


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: VMS TCP/IP?


> IIRC, it's still called 'UCX' on the V7.2 hobbyistCD. I have a V5.3
> system, which still calls it UCX, also. I think V6 or so was when they
> starting calling it (in places) TCP/IP.
>
> -- Pat
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> > If I remember right UCX was for VMS 4 or earlier I think.... I gotta do
> > some digging, I know I've got the Digital TCP Services CD someplace,
I'll
> > look into the WASD webserver afterwards, it would be fun to check it
out.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Curt
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Geoff Roberts" <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: VMS TCP/IP?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Curt Vendel" <curt_at_atari-history.com>
> > > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:00 AM
> > > Subject: VMS TCP/IP?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Besides Multinet and TCPware, are there any freeware TCP services
for
> > VMS
> > > > 6.1 and higher???
> > >
> > > There is CMU/IP, freeware IP stack originally developed at
Carnegie-Mellon
> > > Uni.
> > > Not sure what version it was in the end, 6.something I think, most
things
> > > work ok with it, though it's a little slow.
> > > Rather buggy too, though perhaps less so than the versions of UCX that
> > were
> > > around at the time it was written.
> > > Haven't seen anything on it for a while, I think the support mailing
list
> > is
> > > dead these days. I think there are still versions
> > > of it out there in use and a search of the web will find it for you
> > > somewhere.
> > > Open source so those with the skills could tinker with it, but it's
> > getting
> > > pretty old. Can't recall what language it was written in,
> > > I don't *think* it was c.
> > >
> > > UCX is available and comes on the VMS distribution these days, still a
bit
> > > twitchy but
> > > better than it was, if you have the hobbyist VMS licence it covers it
too
> > > IIRC.
> > >
> > > > Anyone have any experience with the Purveyor webserver for VMS?
> > >
> > > No, but WASD is freeware, and very well supported. We are a WASD beta
> > site
> > > and I know
> > > the developer personally, he telnets in to play with it on the Vax
here.
> > > (Lives in Adelaide, just up the road, - about 140 miles)
> > > Really good. It doesn't like CMU though, we tried it early in the
WASD
> > > development days
> > > and it did some very odd things to web pages that were completely
cured by
> > a
> > > shift to Multinet...
> > >
> > > Works ok with Multinet, UCX (properly patched) and TCPWare. Still
using
> > > Multinet 3.2 Rev B here. (OLD now)
> > > Available for Vax or Alpha. (Runs on Vax 6440 VMS 6.0 here).
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Geoff in Oz
> > >
> >
> >
>
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