[HECnet] "IP protocols on DECnet'

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Nov 8 14:34:42 PST 2021


On 2021-11-08 17:09, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> "when do you send the message".  That's actually a question with TCP as
> well...
> 
>    You know about the Nagle algorithm, right?

Sadly nagle would not be possible to implement on a stream over DECnet, 
since it is interacting with the tcp acknowledgement of data. (Or at 
least I cannot see how you would do nagle in that environment.)

   Johnny

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