Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
7 May 1999 07:00:25 +0200

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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	-- Edward O. Wilson, "Biophilia"


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