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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:03:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>
Cc:        "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com>, DL-ADM <DLADM@anheuser-busch.com>, "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AIX going BSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904061400310.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990406125137.A41889@luke.pmr.com>

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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.

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