On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:34:02 HST, knowtree@aloha.com wrote:
> Microsoft's orriginal NT TCP/IP
> stack was taken from the FreeBSD code, although they had to be -- cough
> cough -- reminded to give credit.
This isn't quite correct, In the early days of NT (1989/90) Microsoft
was backing NetBeui (a competitor to TCP/IP) but then realized that
TCP/IP was being used heavily in competing server platforms, Microsoft
wanted to offer TCPIP and didn't have time to develop their own stack
so they used a TCP/IP stack licensed from a British company called
"Spider Systems".
Spider Systems based their _original_ TCP stack on _some_ BSD code (not
FreeBSD code) from the University of California (B)erkeley (S)oftware
(D)istribution. this was '89/90.
Microsoft developed their own TCP/IP stack (completely from scratch and
free of any BSD code) which was finished in 1993 and deployed in 1994
(around the same time they stopped using the Spider stack).
The FreeBSD project started off in 1993 so this was 3 or 4 years later.
cheers
-- phil.
(FreeBSD user)
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