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echo: binkd
to: MARK LEWIS
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2018-04-28 10:49:00
subject: Feature request: soft IPv

Hello mark,

On Friday April 27 2018 09:24, you wrote to Andrei Dzedolik:

 ml> at this time, i don't think i'd worry about OS/2... it is doubtful
 ml> that it will get an IPv6 stack any time soon...

OS/2 is dead. It does not support IPv6 and never will. The makers of its
successor, EcomStation promised they would add IPv6 but it never emerged and by
now Ecomstation is a dead end as well. The latetst successor, ArcaOs, had no
support for IPv6 either and the makers say there are no plans for IPv6 yet. So
forget about OS/2 and its successors.

 ml> i don't have a clue what DOS networking stacks may have these days...
 ml> freeDOS might have IPv6 by now but i've not looked at it in a long
 ml> time... winwhatever, *nix and mac, sure...

AFAIK, there is no 16 bit OS that supports IPv6.

Anyway. IPv6 was born in 1995, more then two decades ago. I say that any OS
that doesn't havae it yet, almost at the end of the second decade of the 21st
century, has missed the boat and is not worth any rescue attempt. Let's forget
about the dinasours and move on.

Just my EUR 0.02.

Cheers, Michiel

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