Steve Dirickson writes:

>I agree-let's show some appreciation for that "old friend". Our primary
>production software (at least the HP3000 end of it) is based on NetIPC.
>After all, NetIPC was "sockets" long before BSD sockets came to the 3000.
>And NetIPC has long had capabilities, like conditional acceptance of an
>incoming connection, that are just starting to show up in the "other"
>kind of sockets.

Ditto. And not only that, NetIPC is designed to work more elegantly
with MPE based software architectures. Nowait socket i/o (non priv),
passing sockets to other processes easily, simultaneous reading of
multiple sockets and message files, being some of the ones that come
to mind.

And of course, callable from languages mere humans can understand, like
cobol, pascal and fortran.

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