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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14:37 CST
- Sender: IBM TCP/IP List <IBMTCP-L@PUCC.BITNET>
- From: Dave Nordlund <NORDLUND@UKANVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: IBM's MVS TCP/IP Problems
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 23 Dec 1992 13:14:00 GMT from <SEB1525@MVS.DRAPER.COM>
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- On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:14:00 GMT Steve Bacher said:
- >Denis DeLaRoca and Leonard Woren recently commented on IBM's failure
- >and/or refusal to fix fundamental problems in MVS TCP/IP.
- >
- >It seems to me that the word has come down from on high NOT to devote
- >any more resources to improving mainframe operations, other than those
- >facilities which are critical to large batch-driven businesses. TCP/IP
- >would clearly not fall into that category.
- >
- However, IBM is committed to "open" systems and has accepted TCP/IP as one
- part of that definition. As I understand their direction, they are trying
- to make the mainframes a cooperating part of the networking world as an
- attempt to extend their life.
-
- Dave Nordlund Associate Director
- Computing Services University of Kansas
- NORDLUND@UKANVM.BITNET nordlund@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu
- 913/864-0450
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