Hello mark,

On Saturday April 28 2018 06:43, you wrote to me:

 MV>> OS/2 is dead.

 ml> sorry but it is NOT dead... certainly not with a new variation of it
 ml> being actively worked on and distributed...

Those "variations" are not OS/2. They may be look and feel alikes but they are
not IBM OS/2.  THAT OS/2 is dead. Dead in the sense that there will be no more
updates. And so it will never support IPv6.

 MV>> It does not support IPv6 and never will.

 ml> i know and stated as much ;)

"never" != "not anytime soon".

 ml> [trim]

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

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

 ml> there is a 32bit freedos project...

I have left DOS behind a long time ago. I don't look back. So like you, I have
no idea what this 32bit freedos is. I can not rule out that it supports IPv6,
but it would surprise me.

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

 ml> the adoption of 32bit took a while...

A bit longer than the shift from 8 to 16 bits, but not all than long...

 ml> the adoption of 64bit is taking longer...

But not all that relevant regarding the adoption of IPv6. IPv6 runs fine on 32
bit. Binkd runs fine on 32 bit. The 64 bit versions do not perform notably
better. Not for this application.

 ml> i'm surprised they haven't announced 128bit yet so we can have this
 ml> ""discussion"" again in another 50 years when 128bit is still just
 ml> being adopted ;)

50 years? I doubt I will still be around by then. I do not expect the average
human life expectancy to increase fast enough for that...



Cheers, Michiel

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