Subj : Feature request: soft IPv6 force To : mark lewis From : Michiel van der Vlist Date : Sat Apr 28 2018 02:18 pm 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 --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303 * Origin: http://www.vlist.eu (2:280/5555) .