From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 11: 8: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C2F14BF5 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA38267; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:03:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:03:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Bob Willcox Cc: "Alton, Matthew" , DL-ADM , "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: AIX going BSD In-Reply-To: <19990406125137.A41889@luke.pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > I guess the jist of this is that nothing is necessarily GIVEN (at least > not in those days at IBM). Certainly, ditching the IBM Research code > and converting to the BSD TCP/IP code wasn't. It sounds like the current > folks working on AIX have continued to use good ideas from outside of > IBM as well (I retired from IBM almost 4 years ago now). > > Ah, well, enough with the nastalgia, Bob. I've heard the same, and I think I'm seeing it at the IBM website. Now that the days of Akers are over at IBM, it's no longer a nasty place to be near. I don't know about working for them, but as a neighbor, IBM was a vicious attack dog in those days. Times really have changed, and it feels odd to be able to say nice things about IBM these days. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message