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From: murphyn@motcid.UUCP (Neal P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Sockets?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 14:17:00 GMT
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jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey) writes:

>A quick question to my fellow travelers,
>	Does the Unix PC operating system support the 'sockets' inter-process
>communication facility?  I understand that this is primarily a feature of BSD
>unix, but our little OS is a bit of a mutt |-}.

The Unix PC supports SysV IPCF (It uses message queues, as opposed to sockets.)

If you look hard and long enough, I believe you can find a socket implementation
for the Unix PC, though.

NPN