[TUHS] NFS at 40

[Clem Cole via TUHS]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM Brad Spencer via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> "Charles H. Sauer via TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:
> ....  it came
> out that the IP stack in that SVR3.x on the Vax was from Lachman ported
> in by DEC.  DEC tossed out the code base, whatever might have existed,
> that AT&T provided with the source reference for doing IP related stuff.
> This would have been in the 1990s.  The coworker seemed to indicate that
> the Lachman code performed better and/or had all of the parts that one
> might expect in a IP stack that were missing in the AT&T version.
>
IIRC, the issue was System V's Streams (TLI) vs. UCB's Sockets.  Most of
the code for IP/TCP, particularly UNIX-based, wanted "pure-joy" and hacking
the code to TLI was too much trouble.