bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock) (06/08/91)
Whatever has happened to the release of Berkeley UNIX that was going to incorporate OSI protocols in the comm stack? Seems like it was supposed to be available by now. Anyone have an ECD? Thanks, Bruce Stock bruces@atc.boeing.com uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bruce
davy@intrepid.erg.sri.com (David Curry) (06/10/91)
In article <4087@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock) writes: |>Whatever has happened to the release of Berkeley UNIX that was going to |>incorporate OSI protocols in the comm stack? Seems like it was supposed |>to be available by now. |> Uh, it's been available for almost a year now. 4.3BSD-Reno was release in July, 1990. To quote from the announcement: "The ISO/OSI Networking consists of a kernel implementation of transport class 4 (TP-4), connectionless networking protocol (CLNP), and 802.3-based link-level support (hardware-compatible with Ethernet*). The session and presentation layers will be provided outside the kernel by the ISO development environment (ISODE). Included in this development environment are file transfer and management (FTAM), virtual terminals (VT), a direc- tory services implementation (X.500), and miscellaneous other utilities." They say support for CONS, X.25, and TP0 is scheduled for 4.4BSD. They also include other things like a freely redistributable NFS, POSIX.1 compliance, Kerberos, and so on. It runs on VAXes (86x0, 82x0, Microvaxes, and the old 7xx stuff), Tahoes (CCI, Harris HCX, etc.), and HP 9000/300 series machines. --Dave Curry
eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) (06/11/91)
From article <1991Jun10.165632.11856@erg.sri.com>, by davy@intrepid.erg.sri.com (David Curry): > In article <4087@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock) > writes: > |>Whatever has happened to the release of Berkeley UNIX that was going to > |>incorporate OSI protocols in the comm stack? Seems like it was supposed > |>to be available by now. > |> > > Uh, it's been available for almost a year now. 4.3BSD-Reno was release in > July, 1990. But remember, thats only an intermediate releease, and you are supposed not to use that version if 4.4 finally makes it. --- Toerless.Eckert@informatik.uni-erlangen.de /C=de/A=dbp/P=uni-erlangen/OU=informatik/S=Eckert/G=Toerless bandwidth - the final frontier.