Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success
by muststopmyths on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:15PM
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>Microsoft is known to have built off BSD networking code for Windows.
30+ years ago, when everyone was basing their TCP stacks on the BSD implementation. That was one of the reasons that the infamous 64k+ "ping of death" affected more than just Windows in 1998.
The stack was re-written for Vista/Longhorn more than 20 years ago.
My point being that the GP question was about FreeBSD's success today and the Windows TCP stack is not a good candidate to illustrate that.
30+ years ago, when everyone was basing their TCP stacks on the BSD implementation. That was one of the reasons that the infamous 64k+ "ping of death" affected more than just Windows in 1998.
The stack was re-written for Vista/Longhorn more than 20 years ago.
My point being that the GP question was about FreeBSD's success today and the Windows TCP stack is not a good candidate to illustrate that.