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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Socket Emulation
- Message-ID: <9301051731.07@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:30:59 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.002457.13138@acme.gen.nz> <1ic5esINNmpt@uwm.edu>
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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- In article <1ic5esINNmpt@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
- >kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >>A month or so ago I read somewhere (possibly on the Coherent TCPIP mailing
- >>list, which has been very quiet if not defunct) that someone had a socket
- >>emulation library available for Coherent 4. I'm trying to port a mud (CI Mud,
- >>a smallish disk-based server that is probably feasible under Coherent,
- >>networking aside) and I need to be able to replace all the socket code to get
- >>it running. I'm assuming that the emulation code will use some other form of
- >>IPC, to allow processes to talk to each other on the same machine as if they
- >>were using sockets.
- >
- >You mean Coherent doesn't already *have* sockets?!? NONE AT ALL?!!?
-
- Since you don't have Coherent, don't worry about it.
-
- >Yikes! I had *thought* that Coherent was a relatively decent OS until now.
- >I can understand not having IP ("net") sockets, but you're gonna have a bad
- >time porting anything like a MUD if it won't even do UNIX (filesystem) ones.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ?
-
- >Jeeez... TinyMUSH, PennMUSH, and DikuMUD compile out-of-the-box under Linux.
- >Even LP-MUD compiles without too much twiddling. ...and Linux is FREE.
- >
- >How much did you pay for COH? Is it *refundable*?
-
- What's the support telephone number for Linux?
-
- Why does the extfs eat directories?
-
- Why doesn't lpr work on Linux?
-
- How many iBCS binaries run on Linux?
-
- Why is it so difficult to get Linux to boot directly from a hard disk?
-
- Where can I buy the type set, professionally written manual for Linux?
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- Go back to comp.os.linux and stop trying to start flame wars.
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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