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I believe that was only because it was mandated by the federal government as part of procurement process. It’s the same reason there was a half baked posix subs
by ipython 6y ago
I believe that was only because it was mandated by the federal government as part of procurement process. It’s the same reason there was a half baked posix subsystem in Windows NT. I don’t have citations at the moment to prove my memory.
- marcosdumay 6y agoWindows NT was built VMS-style, getting half-baked subsystems is it's entire point.
- p_l 6y agoMS is major pusher of IPv6 in corporate world. Remember that when Windows 2000 was released, major v6 traffic was 6BONE overlay. Over the next few releases, they worked hard on v6 support, and in fact some issues people had with Vista were caused by NT6 being IPv6-first OS, across all of the MS solutions. MŚ had to go backwards a bit in 6.1, introducing things like v6-over-HTTP tunnels because they found that assuming native v6+ipsec working was too much, even with Teredo.