1 Nov
2018
1 Nov
'18
1:57 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 7:48 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I did see a proposal a while back (can't remember
where/when) to use
something like open("/dev/net/host/port", ...) to establish a network
connection (or a server with appropriate flags), in much the same way that
device files are created dynamically.
Dave - that's how the original UNIX ChaosNet code worked and the original
BBN TCP (before sockets). Apollo used the same scheme with Aegis/Domain
(probably because Larry Allen implemented both UNIX Chaos and Aegis IIRC).
P9 took a different path still (pun intended).
Clem